To answer your question? Nah, I don't think so.
I think the trucker pisses on DETC because both his undergraduate & doctorate degrees are in the "unranked" category over at U.S. News & World Report. He can't stack his degrees up against any other non-specialty RA school (except maybe Western New Mexico which I previously reported is also unranked) so why not bash one of the more prominent, low cost alternatives? Since most (not all) members of DD place more importance on RA over NA Levicoff's degrees would only be more superior to DETC and that's using THEIR logic.
Now, I'm sure Levicoff will give some profanity laced rebuttal as to why he thinks what he does, but I could give a shit. He's entitled to his opinion as equally as I'm entitled to mine.
Let's take a look just for a moment, at the U.S. News rankings methodology: "The U.S. News rankings system rests on two pillars. It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and it's based on our nonpartisan view of what matters in education."
Let's take a look at the first part: "It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality..." Now, isn't that what accreditation does or is supposed to do? We always hear "elsewhere" that accreditation is the only indicator of quality and since accreditation is peer-reviewed I don't see how the U.S. News rankings should be viewed any differently.
This reminds me of another post of mine where I mention that RA schools are not without controversy. I listed Phoenix, AIU, Capella, to name a few. Notice the common denominator? Yes, they are all RA, but they are also predominantly non-traditional in nature which makes them a threat, IMO, to the often archaic educational methods currently in place at their "peer" institutions.
I think the trucker pisses on DETC because both his undergraduate & doctorate degrees are in the "unranked" category over at U.S. News & World Report. He can't stack his degrees up against any other non-specialty RA school (except maybe Western New Mexico which I previously reported is also unranked) so why not bash one of the more prominent, low cost alternatives? Since most (not all) members of DD place more importance on RA over NA Levicoff's degrees would only be more superior to DETC and that's using THEIR logic.
Now, I'm sure Levicoff will give some profanity laced rebuttal as to why he thinks what he does, but I could give a shit. He's entitled to his opinion as equally as I'm entitled to mine.
Let's take a look just for a moment, at the U.S. News rankings methodology: "The U.S. News rankings system rests on two pillars. It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and it's based on our nonpartisan view of what matters in education."
Let's take a look at the first part: "It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality..." Now, isn't that what accreditation does or is supposed to do? We always hear "elsewhere" that accreditation is the only indicator of quality and since accreditation is peer-reviewed I don't see how the U.S. News rankings should be viewed any differently.
This reminds me of another post of mine where I mention that RA schools are not without controversy. I listed Phoenix, AIU, Capella, to name a few. Notice the common denominator? Yes, they are all RA, but they are also predominantly non-traditional in nature which makes them a threat, IMO, to the often archaic educational methods currently in place at their "peer" institutions.