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March 18, 2007
The $60,000 Question: Will Arizona State Rise in Magazine's Rankings?
Where their institution stands in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings is among the issues that worries college leaders least, according to a 2005 survey by The Chronicle. Michael M. Crow, of Arizona State University, may be an exception: His bonus could be $60,000 richer if he succeeds in moving the university up in the magazine’s listings, according to the East Valley Tribune, a newspaper in Mesa, Ariz.
That goal is one of 10 that the Arizona Board of Regents set last week. For each goal achieved, Mr. Crow is to receive $10,000; if he completes all 10, he gets an extra $50,000. Robert Bulla, the board’s president, had mixed feelings about attaching importance to the popular rankings. “It’s an image thing that personally I’m not that enamored with,” he told the newspaper. “But some folks are.”
The magazine consistently lists Arizona State among “third-tier” institutions, which are not assigned a numerical rank.
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