Time For Higher Ed To Create DIY Rankings

Many of us in higher education dislike popular college rankings such as the annual academic beauty pageant from US News & World Report. But expecting them to go away is naive. Instead, we in higher ed should work to make available a better mousetrap. One way for higher ed to start would be to agree to send to a third-party non-profit or foundation the same data that we already submit to US News and other rating organizations, as well as sending other important data that we regularly report. The third party would then make the data readily available online, perhaps on a website. Read more at:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0719/p09s02-coop.html?s=hns