June 3, 2009

Researcher Offers Unusually Candid Description of University's Effort to Rise in Rankings

By Martin Van Der Werf

Atlanta

Clemson University is run in an almost single-minded direction, with nearly all policies driven by how they will help the land-grant institution rise in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings, according to a university official whose candid comments stirred debate among conference-goers here on Tuesday.

Clemson has doubled its tuition this decade, manipulated class sizes, and even sought to downgrade the academic reputations of other institutions when answering surveys,

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