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Collateral Damage of the Rankings Obsession
UF Law slide from 21 to 28 in the US News Law School Rankings. Twenty-eight is not so bad and […]
April 11, 2024
Changes in SAT Scores after Test-optional
One of the intended consequences of test-optional admission policies at some institutions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was to raise […]
April 1, 2024
The annual graduation rate post
I know I’ve been barking up the tree of “Graduation Rates are inputs, not outputs” for a long time. And […]
March 2, 2024
First-year student diversity in American colleges and universities, 2018-2022
I started this visualization to show how first-year classes at the highly rejective colleges had changed since COVID-19 forced them […]
February 1, 2024
Enrollment is complicated, redux
Enrollment, as I like to say, is complicated. But that never stopped anyone from asking a question like, “How does […]
January 26, 2024
Class Bias and the Deanship of Laura Rosenbury
Laura Rosenbury became the Dean of UF law after a failed search in which the central administration was pushing […]
April 2, 2023
Ben Sasse and Paper Tigers in Academia
This quote caught my eye in the Gainesville Sun today. It is about, Ben Sasse, the likely new president of […]
October 16, 2022
The DeSantification of a University
I cannot help but think of Joseph Welch and his historic face off with Joseph McCarthy when he finally said, […]
May 2, 2022