The president of Columbia ought to be able to stand up and say, we are the preeminent institution of learning in the greatest city in the world. And his school got consumed with succeeding at a rankings game that is morally and intellectually bankrupt. That jackass decided to cook the books, and now what do we have? A school that has broken the most fundamental of promises to its own community. This episode of Revisionist History was produced by Kiara Powell with Lehman Gistu, Ben D'Afalfa III and Jacob Smith.
Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prizes, created to honor the giants of the American education system. This year, Malcolm is celebrating one prominent university that decided to play the US News & World Report at its own dirty rankings game—and smeared themselves in the process. Featuring an eagle-eyed math professor, our favorite data scientist, and the legend of one disgraced congressman.
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