Dean's Letter
After University of Colorado Distinguished Professor Thomas Cech won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, he took the helm of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. One of his chief aims was to overhaul education, particularly in science, math and technology. Another goal was to retool the way research is done.
Every year, prospective students and their families pore over a range of college rankings that strive to gauge everything from universities’ academic rigor to their social atmosphere. Some of these assessments are more useful than others.