Sounds like a useless and possibly harmful criterion.

Sounds like a useless and possibly harmful criterion.
by doolinbanjos (2020-09-18 11:16:45)

In reply to: What does "Environment" mean? posted by sprack

It's useless in that what is desirable about a college environment is subjective. Some of the things putting ND at the bottom may well be things that many people are looking for in a college. It's potentially harmful if we start to incentivize colleges to conform to an idealized environment for ranking purposes.

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Then all college rankings are useless. * - Keenan4w 2020-09-18 16:58:02
Agree completely - sprack 2020-09-18 14:27:22