Mitch Daniels, who should have been the Republican nominee for president in 2012, is now the president of Purdue University, where he has already started introducing the same sort of innovations he was noted for as governor of Indiana (most notably, a freeze on tuition rates).
This one is really interesting to me. He has formed a partnership between Purdue and Gallup to create a new system for ranking colleges, to replace U. S. News & World Report. It will be based in large part on how well the schools' graduates do in their careers.
Purdue University is working with polling company Gallup to develop a new college rating system.
Right now US News and World Report publishes the most closely-watched list of top schools. But Purdue President Mitch Daniels has criticized that system. He says what students really need is a measure of how a college’s graduates do in the workforce.
Daniels says Gallup’s decades of public-opinion research give the company the ability to quantify subjective questions such as whether graduates feel productive on the job or whether their work is important. He says research shows a correlation between workers who feel engaged on the job and the profits they generate for their employers.
The Gallup-Purdue Index will combine those measurements with data on how many of a school‘s graduates are employed and how much they earn. The new rankings will debut in the spring.
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