Category: higher education

U.S. News rankings through the years

As part of its recent package of stories about the college rankings game (and as reported on this blog a few weeks back) , The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a table showing how the highest-ranking universities and liberal arts colleges have fared over the past 25 years. It’s a nice tool that might be useful for those schools that have managed to crack the top 50 during that quarter century — or for those who want to attempt to glean some insight about how those schools by looking at the data over time. But for the rest of us, it doesn’t do a lot of good.

Link via SimpsonScarborough, where Elizabeth Scarborough discusses the subject in more detail.

Friday Five: 23 minutes till lunchtime edition

Contextless links on a Friday morning:

  1. answering emails/ Video chatting on skype/How ridiculous. That’s just one example — my own — of the latest literary rage, Twitterku. That’s hiaku created from found Twitter texts. Via Boing Boing. (Being a non-Twitterer — or non-Twit, as I prefer — I had to go to the Twitter website to get my TwitterKu text.)
  2. No. 11: Doing a Friday Five when your stomach is growling. When is blogging a waste of time? 10 nasty examples.
  3. So many social networks … so little time. Struggling to manage all your social networks? MyLifeBrand may be your savior. The service lets users aggregate all their social networks and navigate between them from one place. TechCrunch reviews the service. It sounds promising.
  4. A Second Life for higher ed is the topic of Karine Joly‘s latest column for University Business. She plans to post interviews she conducted for this column on her blog in a couple of days.
  5. Seven alternatives to Wikipedia. Students of the world, rejoice! No longer do you have to rely solely on Wikipedia for your research papers. Via David Weinberger.

It is now 11:59. Time for lunch.