Dr. Jerry Lucido
Inside Higher Ed quoted Jerome Lucido in an article by Scott Jaschik titled “How Much Admission Misreporting?” about cases in which universities falsified data used for U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Jerome A. Lucido, executive director of the University of Southern California Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, said that it was important to remember that outright falsifying reports was “only one way to manipulate” the rankings, and that many others are used as well. “They can also be manipulated by recruiting students who will not be admitted, by deferring to future semesters students who were not admitted for fall, and by counting faculty as teaching resources who only teach nominally or tangentially,” Lucido said.
While many say that all kinds of manipulation are just “the way the game is played,” Lucido said that it was “long past time to provide truly accurate public information and to concentrate on indicators of our results rather than our inputs.”
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