June 2, 2009

Delay of Doctoral-Program Rankings Leaves 'Post-Mortem' Panel With No Data to Dissect

By Jeffrey Brainard

Atlanta

Institutional researchers indulged in some black humor here on Monday about the National Research Council’s long-delayed report on a study of graduate research programs. A conference session about the study was titled a “post-mortem,” even though the results aren’t out yet, and no one can say when they will be.

That premature title came about because the session, at the annual meeting of the Association for Institutional Researchers, was scheduled last year, and the

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