November 21, 2008
Most Colleges Chase Prestige on a Treadmill, Researchers Find
The pursuit of institutional prestige has done little to improve the reputations of most colleges, and it may be causing many of them to become less distinguishable from their competitors, new research shows.
"Is the price of prestige worth pursuing?" asked Robert M. Hendrickson, a professor of education at Pennsylvania State University at University Park during a panel discussion at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education here this month. Arguing
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