We could be ranked in the Top 25 in every sport, and somebody on this board would try to pick it apart. Good grief.
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We could be ranked in the Top 25 in every sport, and somebody on this board would try to pick it apart. Good grief.
TNS did it for them. Journalistic semantics much?Originally Posted by RougeDawg
ULM
ULM was the highest ranked public Louisiana institution in the list for southern universities at 81. An accompanying list was released, which ranked only the state-supported public schools in the region. ULM came in at number 39 in the South for public universities and was again the highestranked Louisiana institution.
And today's makeup offering in the Monroe dead-tree edition.
(But . . . this article is not online after a short search.)
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
Good Lord........ This should have been two separate articles or the headline about Tech's status and a sub-article below about ULM's regional ranking. How can we ever expect people of N. Louisiana to know how much separation Tech has achieved with media like this? Did the Times run an article?
Prime example of TNS's MeTooU practices.
Both schools sent in a press release and the editorial board decided to confuse the readers.
The Times finally published one online about Tech at 9:06 a.m. this morning, about 24 hours after the press release was sent to them. And it is in the dead tree version, but they combined it with Centenary's story kinda like TNS did with ULM. I'm glad they put it in there because yesterday it was looking like they were going to ignore Tech.
I can't even tell what that means. It's so confusing it just sounds like they are covering something up.
.......Come on now.....you know everybody gets a trophy.
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Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 National University by the 2014 U.S. News & World Report college rankings and is the only Tier 1 National University in the nine-member University of Louisiana System.
We can be proud of that. Being designated as a Tier 1 National University by USNWR is meaningful. However, we need to understand how the “study” is conducted. It's not very scientific. It's merely a survey of university professors and administrators asking for their rankings based on a wide range of criteria. What's not generally known is that the population of participants is highly skewed toward the extremely high concentration of Northeast schools. So with that skew and many of the participants not being as familiar with schools out in the “flyover country”, it's likely that many schools in the rest of the country wind up with lower rankings than they should! Based on how we rank in other ways probably means even more than the USNWR Tier 1.
For instance, as designated by the Carnegie Research Institute, Louisiana Tech is one of only 35 comprehensive research universities with high research activity (RU/H) in the nation and the only university in Louisiana to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).[3] The university has long been known for its quality engineering and science programs. The first doctoral degree awarded was a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1971.
The College of Engineering and Science began offering one of the first biomedical engineering curriculum programs in the United States in 1972 and the first nanosystems engineering BS degree in 2005. Louisiana Tech launched the nation's first cyber engineering BS degree in 2012.
The university confers associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees through its five academic colleges. Additionally, Louisiana Tech offers doctoral degrees in audiology, business administration, counseling psychology (accredited by the American Psychological Association), industrial/organizational psychology, computational analysis and modeling, all of the engineering disciplines, and biomedical engineering, with a joint MD/PhD program with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
According to the Association for University Technology Managers, Louisiana Tech is ranked as the nation's 2nd best academic institution for innovation productivity as measured by number of new inventions generated per research dollar expended.[60] In 2009, Small Times magazine ranked Louisiana Tech as the 7th best institution in nanotechnology commercialization.
Bottom line.....We're in a totally different academic universe than our ULwhatever kinfolk.
The Dem's/Obama's motto as well as the mainstream media these days.
That's true, but that only accounts for 22.5% of the formula. The other 77.5% is based on objective data.
I agree with your comment. My point was that without the NE skew we would "probably" be somewhat higher in the Tier 1 rank.
The other point I tried to show is that we rank very high in other "polls" and we indeed are highly rated by any measure against our in-state relatives.
And they should also be informed that Tech found the "L" that was missing from their name & hung it on them last week. They are now ULL again and have always been second tier. Way to go coonasses!
Tech expects to report a ~15% increase in Freshman enrollment next week.
http://www.ktbs.com/story/26509629/l...s-put-in-place
From The Shreveport Times editorial board...
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story...udos/15661847/
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