“Solid States: in Praise of Public Universities” by Rimon Partner Stephen Trachtenberg for the Times Higher Education Publication
In this article, Dr. Trachtenberg explains the valuable mission of Land-Grant colleges and how university rankings truly work. “… we come to college rankings… My problem with these has always been that the emphasis on finance and staff-to-student ratios means that the academic One-Percenters (schools with the highest per capita endowment) remain at the top while…