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...twelve college presidents signed a letter asking their colleagues not to participate in the peer assessment survey and not to use the rankings for promotional efforts. The letter, which has since gathered over 50 additional signatories including the presidents of Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Trinity College in Connecticut, called the rankings "misleading" and criticized them for implying a false precision, obscuring important differences, ignoring what students are actually learning, and encouraging wasteful spending in pursuit of improved rankings. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Nonetheless, none of the Ivy League presidents signed the letter, and according to a recently released survey by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions of over 300 college admissions officers, 97 percent of those schools that participated in the rankings last year plan to do so again...
...Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Aug. 25 online article "Harvard Places Second in College Rankings" incorrectly stated that the president of Wesleyan University had signed a letter asking colleagues to refrain from participating in the US News and World Report higher education survey. In fact, the presidents of Wesleyan College and Ohio Wesleyan University signed the letter, but the president of Wesleyan University...
...brought in more moderate or liberal-leaning voters from neighboring states like Massachusetts. "One of the reasons that you're not seeing conservative candidates doing well in our polling is that there's no one here to talk to," said Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center . "New Hampshire has very low rates of church attendance...
...That survey, say academics like Rafael Lima, a University of Miami communications professor and the son of an exile once imprisoned by Castro, reflects the growing number of younger, more moderate Cuban-American voters in South Florida - and the waning clout of the older, more conservative generation. Unlike their elders, the younger generation believes that the 45-year-old economic embargo against Cuba has utterly failed to dislodge its communist leader. As a result, Obama could now galvanize those moderates, who Lima says "have been waiting for a viable presidential candidate to wave their banner for once...