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I know this is a serious question, but... seriously, don't we all know what the best art schools are? At least in the abstract, I think we all do know; and in the practical, isn't "the best one" always going to be the one that most closely fits a particular student's particular situation (talent, interests, finances, career goals, etc.)? Similarly we don't really need to wait for the local newspaper's annual restaurant rankings to know where to get the best meal. We don't need the AAA star system to tell us that the Hilton is going to be more comfortable than the Super 8 the next time we stay over in San Antonio. And any Boston cabbie can take us to the finest college in America without having to pause for a comparative look-up in US News... Reputation is socially produced; it measures a kind of consensus. Quantifying reputation in a statistical fashion can be expected to reproduce the socially generated pattern. If it doesn't, which is more likely: society doesn't know what's good for it, or the pollsters are pulling a fast one? What I'd really like to see is, a ranking of institutions according to the value their administrators place on rankings... Even then, however, I think the outcome can be easily predicted. Institutions sure of their place at the top of whatever ranking will probably have little concern with where they fall in the list. It's the ones who perceive themselves as being much further down who will be the most curious to know how far they might have risen -- since the last poll -- toward the coveted middle. In such a ranking, the first will indeed be made last, and the last first. Of course institutions are not the intended consumers of institutional rankings. It's the institutions' prospective customers who are. So who are these customers, who would buy an education (for example) on the basis of the same sort of ranking they'd use to buy an appliance reviewed in Consumer Reports? Again, one suspects, they will not be the consumers who themselves rank high on the scale of sophistication. They will instead be the ones who rank high on the scale of insecurity, floundering in some world they know is not their own, anxious to be assured that they are getting a "good deal" even at the cost of missing "the best one." Al Willis ________________________________ From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gregory, Tori Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:42 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ARLIS-L] Art School Rankings Hello everyone: One of my faculty has asked for information on Art graduate schools - specifically rankings of art schools. I'd settle for finding graduate schools ranked (I know which ones have art programs) - but art specific information would be better. Any ideas where I can find this? Web sites are appreciated also. Tg ************************************************* Tori Gregory Asst. Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Oklahoma State University 306 Edmon Low Library Stillwater, OK 74075 phone: 405-744-5944 email: [log in to unmask] ************************************************* __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ====================================================================== The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may otherwise be privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. This footnote also confirms that this email has been scanned for all viruses by the Hampton University’s Center for Information Technology Enterprise Systems service. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]