Malcolm Gladwell Interviews Robert Morse: 'Lord Of The Rankings'

Following up on my previous posts (links below):

Malcolm Gladwell, Lord of the Rankings (Revisionist History Season 6):

For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges and universities in the United States. As a public service to our listeners, we hack the algorithm and discover the dirty little secret of the rankings game. Part one of a two-part series.

Malcolm Gladwell, Project Dillard (Revisionist History Season 6):

A historically Black university in New Orleans is beloved by everyone – except the US News best colleges rankings. We hack our way back into the algorithm and show how Dillard University can rise to the top. Part two of a two-part series.

Lord of the Rankings Further Resources

• Huaying Qiu & Wenxin Du, A True Lie About Reed College: U.S. News Ranking
• Chris Lydgate, Reed and the Rankings Game
• Casey Dougal (Drexel), Pengjie Gao (Notre Dame), William Mayew (Duke) & Chris Parsons (USC), What’s in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets
• New York Times, Some Colleges Have More Students from the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.
• Rowan University, Houshman’s Hazardous Hot Sauce

Project Dillard Further Resources

• Mitchell Chang (UCLA) & Victor Saenz (Texas), The Contradictory Roles of Institutional Status in Retaining Underrepresented Minorities in Biomedical and Behavioral Science Majors
• American Institute of Physics ("AIP"), The AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP)
• National Science Foundation ("NSF"), NSF Establishes New Center to Study Successful Undergraduate STEM Education Practices at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Data from IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Malcolm Gladwell's Law School Rankings
• Bill Henderson And Malcolm Gladwell On The LSAT
• Malcolm Gladwell, Andrea Curcio, Heather Gerken, Orin Kerr, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
• Malcolm Gladwell, Yale Dean Heather Gerken, And The Dialectic Tension Within Legal Education
• More On Malcolm Gladwell And The LSAT
• Malcolm Gladwell: 'SSRN Is The Greatest Website On The Internet — Page Six For Dorks'
• Is Malcolm Gladwell Right: Do 50% Of Harvard Law Students Take Drugs To Enhance Their Academic Performance?
• Malcolm Gladwell-Bowdoin College Food Fight Over Student Amenities v. Financial Aid To Low-Income Students

(Hat Tip: Selina Farrell)