The Chronicle of Higher Education
Higher Ed’s Prestige Paralysis
November 28, 2022
Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College (MN) and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, writes: The recent announcement by the law schools at
Yale and
Harvard that they would “no longer participate” in the rankings offered up annually by
U.S. News and World Report is, I suppose, worthy of at least polite applause. Berkeley Law
followed soon after, then Columbia, Georgetown, and Stanford. As of today, 10 of the publication’s top 15 law schools
have said they will stop taking part. Apparently crises of conscience are contagious.