With the acknowledgment of the embarrassing missteps, the Ivy League university in New York expressed contrition over problems that appeared to have been first identified by a whistleblowing math professor skeptical of how Columbia had come to be ranked second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
The statement provided some detail about the errors, but did not clarify exactly what went wrong. Columbia said it had overreported the number of undergraduate classes with U.S. News published last year a chart showing 83 percent of Columbia’s classes in fall 2020 had fewer than 20 students. It was the highest such share reported that year among the top 50 universities.
The faculty whistleblower, Michael Thaddeus, has written that Columbia previously claimed the share with terminal degrees was 100 percent.statistical profiles related to its undergraduate programs in the format known as the Common Data Set. Until now, it had been the only Ivy League school that declined to take that step toward transparency.
Corruption always justifies.
Cheaters. Academia has so little credibility these days!
the fact that class size is an important static is telling. Giving more points for educating less people is insane.
They should all give false data. Why keep propping up the false narrative that the Ivies are better in faculty and student quality than the top/flagship public universities and HBCUs? Better financial endowments don’t translate to top scholarship, just more rigid norms.
Which faculty the Department of Prevarication belongs ? Social Science ?
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