"There is no allegation that Mr. McGlashan's son ever attended a university based on any of the alleged conduct," Pirozzolo said.
He describes the evolving model for higher education, from European universities based on a medieval model to American land-grant colleges to Apple's iTunes U and MIT's OpenCourseWare.
Specifically, SL's potential was compared against two widely used counseling channels available in universities, based on a set of media features identified as relevant and important for counseling services.
"Our campus officials were left with the impression that the DOE was doing these reviews across a representative number of universities based on a number of factors not necessarily tied to the handling of sexual assault cases (hence the element of randomness)," IU-Bloomington spokesman Mark Land told HuffPost Friday.
He is co-author of American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993), which won the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association, and more recently he co-authored The Source of the River, the first analysis of minority achievement in selective colleges and universities based on a representative, national sample.
One in ten students generally said they chose their university based on receiving a place through the clearing system.
A football recruit reportedly chose his university based on the proximity of Chick-fil-A.
Minerva, a new university based on learning science, makes "thinking critically" one of four core competencies but they break it down into "evaluating claims, analyzing inference, weighing decisions, and analyzing problems". This breaks down into more than 50 specific concepts and habits that are assessed in socratic seminars and projects (more than half of the total).
"I don't think overextending a family's finances to get a brand-name college in any way serves a child's needs," said Mark Sklarow, executive director of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, an organization whose members help American families select a university based on cost, among other criteria.
