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From Diverse Issues in Higher Education:
U.S. News & World Report has launched a new ranking series, “America’s Best Black Colleges,” which ranks historically Black colleges and universities separately but by using the same methodology as its annual “America’s Best Colleges” rankings.
...At the top of the list of America’s best Black colleges is Spelman College in Atlanta; Howard University in Washington, D.C.; Hampton University in Virginia; and Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Some colleges such as Lincoln University in Missouri, Philander Smith College in Arkansas, Texas Southern University and the University of the District of Columbia were unranked because they do not use standardized tests in selecting students, part of the student selectivity category.
Of the 81 HBCUs that were eligible, 11 were unranked.
The series received mixed reviews from the HBCU community and ranking critics.
“U.S. News shouldn’t pretend that they are interested in HBCUs because they are not,” says Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College. “This is just another means to sell additional magazines. They did not take the time to study HBCUs, to develop the metrics in terms of creating a formula or consult scholars that study HBCUs"...
Full article: http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_9681.shtml |
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