[ti:Will Scandal Change How People View College Rankings?]
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[00:00.04]A former leader of Temple University's business school
[00:04.04]was found guilty in late 2021 for sending false data
[00:11.04]to lift the school's rankings.
[00:14.24]Moshe Porat was head of Temple's Fox School of Business
[00:18.76]and Management from 1996 until 2018.
[00:23.72]He worked with some employees
[00:26.48]to provide false information to U.S. News and World Report,
[00:31.72]a publication known for its rankings of American colleges.
[00:37.24]The false information included the number of students
[00:40.28]who sent test scores, their school grades, and work experience.
[00:46.40]Based on the information, U.S. News gave the university's
[00:51.40]computer-based business degree program,
[00:54.68]known as an online MBA,
[00:58.00]the top ranking for four years ending in 2018.
[01:03.84]The publication also moved up Temple's
[01:07.20]part-time MBA program to seventh place in 2017.
[01:15.12]U.S. Government lawyers said Porat
[01:17.96]boasted about these rankings
[01:19.88]to bring in more students and donations to the school.
[01:24.12]The number of students, they said, grew greatly in a few short years
[01:29.04]and rising rankings brought in millions of dollars.
[01:34.60]On November 29, Porat was found guilty of charges
[01:39.08]related to sending false information
[01:42.56]"to defraud the rankings system, potential students, and donors."
[01:49.36]After news about the false information came out,
[01:53.56]the number of students in Temple's online MBA program
[01:58.16]dropped to just over 100.
[02:01.00]NBC News reported
[02:03.64]that the program had more than 330 students in 2017.
[02:10.00]U.S. News and World Report
[02:12.00]also took Temple's online business program
[02:15.64]out of its rankings for a short time.
[02:18.52]It is now ranked 105th.
[02:22.16]Ibrahim Fetahi was a student in Temple's online MBA program.
[02:28.88]He said he chose the program because of its high ranking.
[02:32.84]He said he felt as if he paid for a costly meal,
[02:36.64]but instead got something more like fast food.
[02:40.80]Fetahi added, "I will always have a scar on my resume."
[02:46.92]During the trial, The Philadelphia Inquirer
[02:50.44]reported that one of Porat's lawyers
[02:53.04]argued Temple University itself
[02:56.56]was the real guilty party in the case.
[03:00.32]He said the school was occupied with rankings
[03:03.64]and even trained their employees on how to get higher rankings.
[03:09.84]In its coverage of the Temple case,
[03:12.36]the publication Inside Higher Ed
[03:15.32]listed several well-known universities
[03:19.08]that have admitted to providing false information.
[03:22.24]The schools are Villanova University's law school,
[03:26.76]Tulane University's business school,
[03:30.00]Claremont McKenna College, and Bucknell University.
[03:35.76]The Temple case is different, however.
[03:38.36]Porat is believed to be the first university official
[03:42.88]who has been charged and found guilty
[03:45.24]of providing false information in college rankings.
[03:49.72]Robert Morse oversees data for U.S. News and World Report.
[03:55.16]He said the publication counts on schools to send correct data.
[03:59.72]He told VOA that schools will be removed from the rankings
[04:04.76]if they send information that results in an "inflated rank."
[04:09.04]"U.S. News takes cases of misreporting seriously.
[04:15.08]Our mission is to provide students with accurate,
[04:18.52]in-depth data to help them in their school search."
[04:23.84]There are two important questions about rankings that come
[04:27.00]from the Temple case: Can students trust rankings?
[04:31.52]And how much weight should students give rankings
[04:34.28]when choosing a college?
[04:36.88]Francie Diep writes about college rankings
[04:39.88]for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
[04:42.28]She said students should use rankings
[04:44.96]as only part of their college decision.
[04:47.72]"There's also just a lot of things that are important to students
[04:50.76]that the U.S. News rankings don't measure.
[04:54.16]So, if the only thing you're looking at is the rankings,
[04:57.28]then you may not be, sort of, making the best choice for you
[05:01.76]depending on what things you want from college."
[05:05.24]Ahead of rankings, Diep says students
[05:08.64]may want to consider the cost of attendance,
[05:11.80]a sense of belonging at the school,
[05:14.08]and how much money they could earn after school.
[05:17.64]"That's one of the most important things for most families
[05:20.92]and that's not really captured in the rankings," she said.
[05:25.40]Katie Burns is a college adviser for IvyWise.
[05:29.92]She works with both American and international students
[05:33.36]to help them pick the best college.
[05:36.12]Burns said international students often want
[05:39.56]to choose a university people back home will know about,
[05:43.44]but American students are open to
[05:45.68]considering schools that are the best fit.
[05:48.84]"The ranking systems are one tool,
[05:51.12]but they are not the end-all, be-all of your success.
[05:55.04]You need to have your own benchmark
[05:58.16]and system for evaluating what's a good fit for you."
[06:01.16]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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