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Media Archive 2008 November 6, 2008 - "Leaders Call for 'Transformational' Changes in Admissions" in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Eric Hoover) October 8, 2008 - "New College-Search Tool Garners Support From Top Admit Deans" in the Daily Pennsylvanian (Jessica Bell) October 1, 2008 - "Loren Pope Touted 'No-Name' Colleges in a Brand-Name World" in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Eric Hoover) September 26, 2008 - "Creating the Anti-Rankings" in Inside Higher Ed (Scott Jaschik) September 26, 2008 - "Education Conservancy Unveils Prototype for 'Noncommercial' College-Search Tool" in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Eric Hoover) August 27, 2008 - "Battle of the Rankings" in The Guardian (Geoffrey Alderman) August 27, 2008 - "Yale Declines to Return U.S. News Rankings Survey" in Yale Daily News (Caitlin Roman) August 22, 2008 - "'U.S. News' Sees Drop in Participation" in Inside Higher Ed (Scott Jaschik) August 20, 2008 - "At Princeton, Alumni Pride Aids No. 1 Rank" by The Associated Press (Lisa Tolan) May 25, 2008 - "The College Visit: Does it Do Any Good?" In The San Francisco Chronicle April 17, 2008 - "U.S. News Solicits Input on Rankings" in Yale Daily News April 9, 2008 - "'U.S. News' Adds Surveys That Could Alter Methodology" in Inside Higher Ed February 11, 2008 - "Congress to Explore Rising University Endowments" in The GW Hatchet February 4, 2008 - "Ethics and Private Admissions Counseling" in Inside Higher Ed January 17, 2008 - "Potemkin Rankings" in Inside Higher Ed 2007 December 27, 2007 - "The College Tour Goes Online" in The Christian Science Monitor December 17, 2007 - "Notoriously Selective Stanford Considers Accepting More Students" in The San Francisco Chronicle December 7, 2007 - "Harvard May Endorse Alternate Rankings" in Harvard Crimson December 5, 2007 - "University Donates to Alternative Ranking System" in Yale Daily News December 3, 2007 - "Education Conservancy Reels In Donations for Beyond Ranking Website" in The Chronicle of Higher Education September 30, 2007 - "Head of the Class: Questions For Lloyd Thacker" in The New York Times Magazine September 28, 2007 - "Study: Admissions Process Undermines Values, Goals" in The Daily Texan Online September 26, 2007 - "Accountability and the Applicant" in Inside Higher Ed September 26, 2007 - "Meeting Looks Past Rankings: Administrators, Experts Discuss Alternatives to U.S. News 'Best Colleges'" in Yale Daily News September 26, 2007 - "Information, Please: As One Consumer Database Debuts, Higher-Education Leaders Ponder Another" in The Chronicle of Higher Education September 24, 2007 - "How Applying to College Shapes Students" in The Chronicle of Higher Education September 24, 2007 - "Lessons in cynicism and sales" in Inside Higher Ed September 10, 2007 - "Colleges Build Web Sites to Enable Campus Comparisons, Sans Ranks" in Education Week September 10, 2007 - "Watered Down Call For Rankings Reform" in Inside Higher Ed September 10, 2007 - "Presidents of 19 Top-Ranked Liberal-Arts Colleges Warn of 'Inevitable Biases' in Rankings" in The Chronicle of Higher Education August 20, 2007 - "U.S. News College Rankings Debated" on PBS's Newshour August 17, 2007 - "College Rankings From 'U.S. News' Change Little, but Response Rate to Reputational Survey Drops" in Chronicle of Higher Education August 17, 2007 - "Refusing to Rank" in Inside Higher Ed August 17, 2007 - "College Ratings Race Roars On Despite Concerns" in The New York Times July 23, 2007 - "Williams, Amherst Won't Fight Top U.S. News Ratings" on Bloomberg.com July 18, 2007 - "Provocative Theory on Merit" in Inside Higher Ed July 16, 2007 - "The College-Rankings Game" in Hispanic Outlook July 11, 2007 - "New View of Admissions" in Inside Higher Ed July 10, 2007 - "Rankings Don't Gauge a College's True Worth" in The Plain Dealer July 1, 2007 - "Students Learn the Secrets For Getting Accepted" in North Jersey Record June 28, 2007 - "Are U.S. News' Rankings Inherently Biased Against Black Colleges?" on DiverseEducation.com June 27, 2007 - "The Rankings Rebel" in Business Week June 20, 2007 - "Reaming College Rankings" on HuffingtonPost.com June 20, 2007 - "Some Colleges May Opt Out of Rankings" in USA Today June 20, 2007 - "A Better Way to Rank Colleges?" in Time June 20, 2007 - "Many American Colleges Balk at U.S. News Rankings" on CNN.com June 20, 2007 - "More Momentum Against 'U.S. News'" in Inside Higher Ed June 20, 2007 - "Liberal-Arts College Group Plans to Help Develop Alternative to Commercial Rankings" in The Chronicle of Higher Education June 19, 2007 - "Some Colleges to Drop Out of U.S. News Rankings" in The New York Times May 18, 2007 - "Growing Challenge to 'U.S. News'" in Inside Higher Ed May 14, 2007 - "College Rankings Don't Offer 'Alpha' For Parents" on Bloomberg.com May 7, 2007 - "The College Rankings Revolt Heats Up" in BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 - "Battle Lines Over 'U.S. News'" in Inside Higher Ed April 30, 2007 - "Balancing Fundamental Tensions" in Inside Higher Ed April 27, 2007 - "10 Admissions Deans who are changing their field" in The Chronicle of Higher Education April 20, 2007 - "Anti-Rankings Campaign Stirs New Criticisms of 'U.S. News' Guides" in The Chronicle of Higher Education April 12, 2007 - "College Presidents Plan 'U.S. News' Rankings Boycott" in The Christian Science Monitor April 9, 2007 - "Why Doesn't Harvard Love Me?" in Los Angeles Times April 9, 2007 - "Letter Circulating among college presidents asks them not to participate in rankings survey" in The Chronicle of Higher Ed April 5, 2007 - "Rankings face backlash from college presidents" in USA Today April 4, 2007 - "The College Rankings Revolt" in TIME Magazine March 19, 2007 - "Ending the Admissions Frenzy" in The Dallas Morning News March 19, 2007 - "Should U.S. News Make Presidents Rich?" in Inside Higher Ed March 12, 2007 - "Would US News Make Up Fake Data?" in Inside Higher Ed March 12, 2007 - "The Measure of Learning" in US News and World Report February 22, 2007 - "Colleges want to cool admission frenzy" on NPR January 4, 2007 - "College Admission: Is There Hope For the Future?" by Joan Bress in Worchester Magazine 2006 December 18, 2006 - "Deciding to decide" in The Orange County Register December 17, 2006 - "Mailboxes, inboxes burst with college brochures, prompting worries of overkill" in USA Today December 16, 2006 - "From a School Known For Stress, a Dean Takes Aim at Admissions Anxiety" in The LaCrosse Tribune December 8, 2006 - "College admissions in crisis: a process out of control" in Fairfield Minuteman November 16, 2006 - "Early Admissions Still Thriving at U Penn" in The Phoenix November 14, 2006 - "Angst Over Admissions" in Inside Higher Ed November 5, 2006 - "Ratio, Schmatio" in The New York Times October 25, 2006 - "Flag is Raised on Admissions" in USA Today October 15, 2006 - "Advanced Placement Tests Gain in Popularity" in The North Jersey Record October 12, 2006 - "Where is the Faculty in the Admissions Debates?" by Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University, in Inside Higher Ed September 19, 2006 - "Princeton Stops its Early Admissions, Joining Movement to Make Process Fairer" in The New York Times September 19, 2006 - "Princeton Ends Early Decision" in Inside Higher Ed September 17, 2006 - "Harvard Rejects its Early Admit Program" in US News and World Report September 14, 2006 - "Is Early Admission Unfair?" in Christian Science Monitor September 13, 2006 - "Harvard Drops Early Admissions -- Experts Hail New Policy as Fairer" in The San Francisco Chronicle September 13, 2006 - "Harvard Flunks its Early Admission Program" in US News and World Report September 12, 2006 - "Harvard Ends Early Admission" in The New York Times September 12, 2006 - "Harvard to End Early Admission" in Boston Globe September 12, 2006 - "Harvard Ends Early Admission" in USA Today September 12, 2006 - "Harvard to Discontinue Early-Admissions Process" Interview on NPR's All Things Considered with Tovia Smith September 12, 2006 - "Harvard To End Early Admissions" Interview on CBS Evening News with Elliot Kirschner (video) August 20, 2006 - "Ivy League or Bust", in The San Francisco Chronicle June 14, 2006 - "Admissions Revolution" in Inside Higher Education May 16, 2006 - Interview with Leonard Lopate on NPR affiliate WNYC 2004-2005 September 25, 2005 - "The Admissions Obsession", in The Seattle Times. September 13, 2005 - "A Crusade to Save College Admissions", in The Washington Post Online. July 1, 2005 - "Brainstorming a Better Admissions System", in The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 30, 2005 - Interview with Michael Krasny on KQED March 5, 2005 - "Despite New Version, SAT Still Faces Questions of Survival" in USA Today January 30, 2005 - "Another Way In", in The Boston Globe. November 19, 2004 - "The Education of Lloyd Thacker", in The Chronicle of Higher Education. September 27, 2004 - New Book Delivers Antidote To Commercialism's Stranglehold On College Admissions |