(From the Dallas Morning News):

“UT slips to No. 52 in US News rankings amid faux prestige”

The chancellor, administrators and regents at the University of Texas at Austin seem more focused on public relations campaigns, political sideshows and defending the status quo than the university’s drop in the US News & World Report rankings, Jeff Sandefer writes.

By Jeff Sandefer

“We’re No. 52!”

Can you imagine a Texan proudly chanting this?

Yet the chancellor, administrators and regents at the University of Texas at Austin seem more focused on public relations campaigns, political sideshows and defending the status quo than the university’s slouch to 52nd place in the latest US News & World Report rankings.

That’s a shame, because UT — my alma mater and where I was an award-winning professor for more than a decade — is a world-class institution. It’s time it performed like one. READ MORE HERE