What Do We Rank When We Rank Colleges? Who Determines How and Who Benefits?: Student Empowerment and the Development of Alternative College Rankings
This article describes the life-cycle thus far about how a class of undergraduates and their professor have been developing a new college ranking approach based on the college's cultivation of civic intelligence. The approach was educational in that we learned by doing what it might take to act...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Radical Teacher |
| Online Access: | http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/359 |
| Summary: | This article describes the life-cycle thus far about how a class of undergraduates and their professor have been developing a new college ranking approach based on the college's cultivation of civic intelligence. The approach was educational in that we learned by doing what it might take to actually develop a rubric in general (although specifically for ranking colleges). We also found it to be empowering since it was largely a student inspired and directed project. it also fostered critical thinking and social critique based on a bottom-up approach to evaluating orthodox higher education. |
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| ISSN: | 1941-0832 |