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The article discusses on Columbia University's decision to abstain from providing data for the U.S. News & World Report's undergraduate rankings due to concerns about the oversimplified and potentially detrimental impact of rankings on prospective students. It discusses the university's announcement highlighting its reservations about the undue influence of rankings on students; and the reduction of a university's complex profile into simplistic data categories.

The article informs that Association for Institutional Research's annual conference for higher education professionals working in institutional research, assessment, and related education fields. It mentions about research activity carried out in colleges and universities to collect and analyze data concerning students, faculty, staff, and other educational facilities.

The article reports that the fundamental task of higher education is to guide students to the degrees that lead to better lives. Topics include considered that the Covid-19 has made that task harder as a semester in Trice's shoes illustrates how and thousands of students are weathering forces as small as a hard-drive crash and as large as a pandemic.