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...fact, invented right within Harvard’s own hallowed halls. To bring some historical context into this, college campuses in the 1920s saw the development of a distinct youth culture. No longer under the watchful eyes of parents, adolescents were able to structure their social lives among their peers by joining fraternities. For many students, away from the comfort of home for the first time, this peer society offered the reassurance of one’s identity—reassurance through conformity. The increasing prosperity and consumption of the period made it easier for students to engage in constantly...
...rankings twist highly subjective and qualitative data into quantitative terms, with enormously flawed results. For example, surveys sent to college officials asking for ratings of other college and university reputations—disingenuously called “peer assessment” by U.S. News—counts for 25 percent of the overall ranking. Not only do many of these officials know little about their peer institutions, but they also have an adverse incentive to downgrade their competitors...
Published by The Times of London and The Guardian, this system emphasizes peer review...though it has been criticized for its bias towards places where The Times and The Guardian are read. Understandable...
...controversial article published in the undergraduate-run Harvard Health and Policy Review has prompted a Harvard professor to resign from the review's board of advisors because the article contained attacks against him and the professional peer-reviewed journal that he edits, according to the professor and three of the review's editors...
...Even before the issue with Light’s article and the ensuring controversy, the HHPR editorial staff had already decided to shift their journal away from publishing primary research. The concern, the HHPR editors said, was that the review is not equipped to put submitted articles through a peer review process, the standard for academic journals that print primary research...