Faculty of American universities fake rollover!"The scandal has always happened", how long can the university ranking be supported?

At the beginning of the long article released by Sadis in February, Colin Diver, former dean of the University of Pennsylvania, questioned U.S.NEWS's ranking::

"The ranking of the operation of the manipulating data and the distortion system provides a strong motivation. The only or main purpose of which is to exaggerate its score. Because the ranking is seriously dependent on the unveiled and reported data, there is no way to ensure the accuracy of the information of the information. Or the reliability of the ranking result. "

Colin Dove served as the president of the Rido College of Oregon from 2002 to 2012. This is a well -known school of private liberal arts and sciences. Apple's alma mater, the co -founder of Apple, the founder of Steve Jobs, and the earliest American universities to refuse to participate in U.S.NEWS rankings.

Former Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, the former president of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, the former president of the Ledi College of Oregon

After a series of data scandals in a series of colleges and universities, the University of Led College began to refuse to participate in the ranking of U.S.NEWS University (but still included in the ranking) in 1995, and was therefore "punished" by U.S.NEWS -reduced. In the 1990s, the St. John College of Maryland, who had withdrawn from Ride in the same period, re -submitted data to U.S.NEWS in 2014, jumped from 123 to 56 in the previous year.

In recent years, US universities have provided error data to U.S.News.

In 2012, Clemont McKenner College, a well-known liberal arts college in California, acknowledged that in the past six years, he submitted a false entry score to U.S.News, with an average score of 10-20 points.

In the same year, George Washington University raised 20%in the top 10%of the top 10%of the high school classes due to exaggeration, and was eliminated by U.S.News from the best university ranking in 2013.

In 2019, 5 U.S. universities including the University of California, Berkeley, Skllipus College, and North Carolina University Pengbrook were also removed from the U.S.News American university rankings of the year because of errors.

In April 2021, Moshe Porat, former dean of the Fox Business School of Tiantu University, was suspected of using false data to improve the college's curriculum ranking. The U.S. prosecutors sued for fraud. Prate was sentenced to one year or two months in March this year.

Report on the Porat case in the U.S. Department of Justice

In February of this year, U.S.News listed 49 American universities that have been temporarily removed from the rankings since 2018. These schools took the initiative to report their mistakes to U.S.NEWS afterwards.

According to the U.S.NEWS website, the agency collects data directly from the school every year, and the school needs to send a senior academic official to sign to confirm the data accurate; if it is not signed, the school can also enter the ranking, but it will be marked. What U.S.News does is compared with the new data provided by the school with the data of third -party data, the data of the school in the past few years, and the data of other schools to evaluate the authenticity of the new data.

"Forbes" magazine website published on July 4th, bluntly that no one believed that those universities that were captured were "the only culprit". The article wrote that no one knows how many problems with suspicious or tampering with data. "Most institutions do not have the motivation to dig deep into the way the school reports data to find out whether they may cheat."

"The scandal has always happened," Sadis said on July 1, some people and schools were accused of manipulating data, "this (ranking) system is extremely abnormal."

Sadis also questioned the university ranking itself, thinking that it was too difficult to reduce the complexity of academic institutions "compared with one place with another place". " The greatness of the world.

Even if it is U.S.News University of Princeton, the University of U.S.News, the president of Christopher L. Eisgruber also pointed out last year that the university ranking will lead to "destructive inspiration", and some universities may be in U.S.NEWS Get a good ranking and avoid doing some difficult but valuable things, such as admission to students with talented but low -income. Is Grubu believes that the university ranking is a "slightly stupid obsession. When universities, parents or students see it too seriously, it will cause damage."

Talking about the recent data issues of Columbia University, Dava said that he was glad to see the school initiated for review, but he also hoped to see the school inviting law firm or accounting firm for third -party independent review.

"I hope to see schools like Columbia University who have a real status and popularity," Do you know? These rankings are casual, they are anti -wisdom, they do not meet our academic values, we will no longer reconcile They cooperated, "Diffe said.

In April of this year, Diffei's new book "Breaking Ranking: How Ranking the Ranking Industry Rule Higher Education and how to deal with it" was published "

Although the U.S.NEWS ranking is controversial, its status has been strong for many years.

The Washington Post pointed out in an article in March this year that a few years ago, the National Science Research Commission (NRC) tried to rank universities in another multi -dimensional way, allowing people to choose a certain factor Weight to adjust the ranking. But people still prefer simple and clear answers: What is better than? Where should I go?

The author of the article and Professor Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, pointed out that the simple and clear answer can make people satisfy for a period of time, but when they replace the healthier cognition and choice, it is dangerous It's right. The purpose of higher education is exactly the desire for simple and clear answers.

In the view of Xu Kaibin, a specially appointed professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan University, U.S.News, as the most recognized university ranking in the United States, has left some schools' false data issues. From the perspective of its ranking standards for American universities, it is still more scientific.

For example, the scale of the class can reflect the degree of small class, and the small class will help teachers and students to fully communicate and stimulate students' creativity; and U.S.News statistics from the donation of graduates is not the total amount, but to see the donation rate. This is even more. Can reflect students' satisfaction with schools. In addition, U.S.NEWS has a very detailed ranking of American universities. In addition to undergraduate rankings, there are also graduate school rankings categorized according to subjects.

Not only in the United States, the rankings of world universities such as U.S.NEWS have also been sought after in China.

Chang Song, writer and educational observer of the observer network column, believes: "As long as candidates still look at the popularity of the middle school when choosing a school, there is a classification of 'double first -class' when the employer recruits. When the government introduces talents It is impossible to really look at the ranking of the university. "

However, he said that if the "only theory of names" is rushed to the list blindly, it will lose the road of water and indicators, and ignore the important part of the educating people itself. "The purpose of running a school in Chinese universities is not to rush rankings. It is the first priority for Chinese education. Like Indian Science and Technology, high school students immigrate to universities in the United States. China does not need it."

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