Elon is mentioned in an Aug. 22 National Public Radio story on college rankings. The story was a followup on a Washington Monthly story. Details...
The NPR story included an interview with Washington Monthly editor Nicholas Thompson, who is critical of the annual college rankings done by U.S. News & World Report. He is calling for US News to include rankings from the National Survey of Student Engagement, which has named Elon one of the top four schools in the nation on five benchmarks of academic excellence. Thompson noted that NSSE findings reveal that “these four schools did a great job in educating their students.”
To listen to the NPR report, click here.
To read the Washington Monthly story, click here.