CSUN University News Clippings

Another divide between public and private universities: Sunshine

(July 2, 2009)

By ELYSE ASHBURN

It seems everyone wants to know what selective colleges are up to—particularly when it comes to managing their reputations and deciding who gets in and who doesn’t. Three recent controversies illustrate just that.

Last month the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found itself on the wrong end of a gubernatorial investigation after the Chicago Tribune ran a series of articles questioning some of its admissions practices. Clemson University was mocked after it released documents showing that its president rated the university higher than any other in a survey of college leaders that U.S. News & World Report uses to create its popular rankings. “Move over Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and every other college,” the Associated Press gibed. And the University of Florida was brought into the same brouhaha when The Gainesville Sun printed President J. Bernard Machen’s survey responses, in which he ranked Florida on par with several Ivy League institutions…………

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education