usnews / 03 - Inside Higher Ed

You have to love the ethics in higher education, you know, where it is ok to lie in your numbers so you can make your campus look better. In this case, hiding your adjuncts (and TAs). Basically, USN&WR and the campuses have an "understanding" to promote the lie. After all, too much work for the mag to redo the ranking for one. And two, campuses don't really want to give the accurate numbers lest the reality that they depend heavily on adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants to do their teaching comes out (or becomes more obvious. This is pretty much known even if few acknowledge it). Personally, this is one of the things that irks me in higher education: the ease with which administrators will fudge numbers, rephrase statements, exercise nepotism, and at times outright lie in order to preserve a certain image. It's wrong, but more often than not for campuses it just means business as usual.