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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
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
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Tori
Gregory
Asst.
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences
Oklahoma
State University
306 Edmon
Low Library
Stillwater,
OK 74075
phone:
405-744-5944
email:
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