The Old Numbers Game
by P.D. Lesko I READ THE hefty Department of Education Statistics Quarterly from cover to cover with the relish that some people save for their favorite travel magazines. So, I was delighted to discover that U.S. News and World Report’s controversial college ranking list includes percentages of full-time faculty employed. I read that several of the top 10 universities claimed over 95 percent of their faculty were full-time. What bastions of responsible hiring, or so most parents and students reading those numbers might think. The truth, of course, isn’t as close to 100 percent full-time faculty employment as those colleges […]
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