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Restaurant owners expressed gratitude for the recognition, but their reports suggested the ranking??s effects on business were uncertain...
...majority of the member schools in the Annapolis Group, a large coalition of liberal arts colleges, decided to opt out of the rankings this summer. And in September, a conference at Yale sponsored by the non-profit group The Education Conservancy led to the “Beyond Ranking?? campaign, an effort by college and university leaders to develop a “robust, nuanced, and educationally sound web-based system of information, guidance, and interactive tools—one that puts the educational needs of students center stage and restores educational integrity to college admissions...
Harvard came out at the top this year for the Best Value ranking??which rates schools based on how much a student is expected to get out of their education for the money they pay—passing the California Institute of Technology, which held the top spot last year but dropped to fourth for the 2008 list...
...regatta—which was won by Yale just days after relinquishing its No. 1 national ranking??gave the Crimson a preview of some of its competition in upcoming races...
Higginbothom added that although she was excited about the news, she felt the ranking??s emphasis on faculty output ignored many other significant qualities of the department, such as the mentoring and teaching abilities of its professors...