February 16, 2007

Surprising Evaluations of Graduate Education

To the Editor:

It is astonishing that you had the temerity to allow "one university administrator who did not want to be named" to scoff anonymously at the University of Georgia's burgeoning academic excellence ("A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs," The Chronicle, January 12).

It is a well-accepted premise of public relations that reputations lag behind reality. ... Perhaps an evaluation system that is more quantitative than subjective will accelerate the

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