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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Berg Appointed UC Davis School of Law Dean

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jessica Berg has been appointed dean of the University of California Davis School of Law. Berg, who served as co-dean of the School of Law at Case Western Reserve University, will start in her new role Sept. She was a visiting professor at Michigan State University Medical School.

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U.S. News rankings out, digital marketing in?

University Business

News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Gone are the days of school tabling and postcards.

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. I was sure that more schools would join us,” said L.

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Defending its rankings, U.S. News claims elite universities are evading accountability

University Business

News & World Report , defended the publication’s contentious university rankings in an opinion piece published yesterday (Feb. In the past few months, more than a dozen top-ranked medical schools and at least 40 law schools, including those at Yale and Harvard, have publicly announced they will no longer submit data to U.S.

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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Belmont University, a private Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn., University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring. It’s one of the things that makes Belmont great.

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