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Behind UF’s guise of a Top 5 ranking lays systemic inequity
By Erika Davis, PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at UF | Sep. 29, 2022Recently, UF has been celebrating the renewal of its top-five public university ranking. But last month, U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, called college rankings “a joke.” He pointed out they encourage colleges to compete for prestige when they should be working toward equity.
