A glance at the spring issue of Connection: Fudging your way to a higher U.S. News ranking

U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings are "perverse" and "superficial," but they have clout, writes Robert L. Woodbury, a former chancellor of the University of Maine System. So more and more administrators are fudging their way up the rankings, he says.

The trick, he says, is to accept...