Francie Diep
Senior Reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education
Senior reporter @chronicle, covering money and prestige in higher ed. Appreciator of prose in all forms.
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2 months ago |
chronicle.com | Brian F. O’Leary |Francie Diep
The first wave of reconceived Carnegie classifications is out, shaking up listings that have long been a coveted source of prestige for colleges. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education, which manage the classifications, posted colleges’ research designations on Thursday.
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Oct 7, 2024 |
chronicle.com | Jack Stripling |Francie Diep
Would big-name universities pay a magazine to write puff pieces about them? You bet. Guest: Francie Diep, senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education Related Reading:The Colleges That Pay for Positive CoverageEven for ‘Mad Men’ Obsessives, Higher Ed Marketing Inspires Unease Welcome to the Sponsored Campus: More parts of the college experience are up for sale than ever before, experts say. TranscriptThis transcript was produced using speech-recognition software.
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Jul 22, 2024 |
chronicle.com | Francie Diep
What’s NewU.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Medical Schools” lists were published on Tuesday, and, for the first time, the schools don’t have ordinal ranks. Instead, they’re organized into four tiers. Within each tier, the schools are listed in alphabetical order. Although some rankings critics have touted tiers as a better alternative to ordinal ranks, U.S. News analysts don’t appear to agree, necessarily.
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Jun 18, 2024 |
chronicle.com | Francie Diep
Prashant Sehgal has a son who just finished his third year at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a daughter who will start applying to colleges next year. But he’s also a sort of virtual dad to thousands of strangers on the internet. He’s a moderator for three college-admissions forums on Reddit, including one of Reddit’s largest communities about the topic, called ApplyingToCollege, which has 1.1 million users.
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Jun 11, 2024 |
chronicle.com | Francie Diep
Amid widespread questioning of the validity of college rankings last year, Money magazine tried something different—changing its 33-year-old ranking into a rating system. Gone was the one-through-600-something numbered list. Instead, colleges fell into just a handful of buckets: In Money’s latest sorting, out today, college ratings range from two to five stars, in half-star increments.
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