U.S. News Unranks Columbia University in 2022 Best Colleges Rankings

 

U.S. News Unranks Columbia University

U.S. News Unranks Columbia University: To date, Columbia has been unable to provide satisfactory responses to the information U.S. News requested.

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from several rankings in the 2022 edition of Best Colleges (first published September 2021) after Columbia failed to respond to multiple U.S. News requests that the university substantiate certain data it previously submitted to U.S. News.

After learning about questions relating to Columbia’s submission, U.S. News Chief Data Strategist Robert Morse first contacted Columbia in March 2022 requesting Columbia substantiate data reported in its 2021 U.S. News statistical surveys on its counts of instructional full-time and part-time faculty, count of full-time faculty with a terminal degree, student-faculty ratio, undergraduate class size data, and educational expenditures data for the 2022 Best Colleges rankings. To date, Columbia has been unable to provide satisfactory responses to the information U.S. News requested. Therefore, today U.S.

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 News moved the university to be “Unranked” in National Universities, meaning it no longer has a numerical rank in the 2022 National Universities, 2022 Best Value Schools, and 2022 Top Performers on Social Mobility because those rankings used data from the university’s statistical surveys.

Columbia will remain ranked in the 2022 Undergraduate Teaching, 2022 Most Innovative Schools, 2022 Writing in the Disciplines, 2022 First-Year Experience, 2022 Undergraduate Engineering, and 2022 Undergraduate Computer Science rankings because those rankings are based entirely on ratings from top officials at other universities and departments and did not incorporate data reported by Columbia. Likewise, Columbia’s graduate-level schools and programs remain ranked because the institution reported data on them through separate processes.

U.S. News is committed to providing quality information on institutions across the country and relies on schools to accurately report their data so prospective students and their families can make informed decisions throughout their college search. When schools do not accurately report their data, U.S. News will review the matter on a case-by-case basis to determine appropriate remedial actions.

Columbia Loses Its No. 2 Spot in the U.S. News Rankings

As noted by U.S. News Editor and Chief Content Officer Kim Castro last week when U.S. News learned about Columbia’s acknowledgment it is unable to meet U.S. News’ data standards for the 2023 Best College Rankings (scheduled to publish September 2022), we continue to be concerned and are reviewing various options to ensure our rankings continue to uphold the highest levels of integrity.

The Unranked status has been noted on Columbia’s profile page on usnews.com. In addition, for the benefit of prospective students, U.S. News has deleted the data in question from the school’s profile pages and in the U.S. News College Compass tool.

Columbia University is a private institution that was founded in 1754. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,170 (fall 2020), its setting is urban, and the campus size is 36 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Its tuition and fees are $63,530.

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Mission with three satellites from Singapore WATCH | Isro launches PSLV-C53

 

Isro launches PSLV

Isro launches PSLV: The spacecraft carried three satellites to Low Earth Orbit, deploying them at an altitude of 570 km measured from the equator.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched three satellites from Singapore on Thursday on its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The PSLV-C53 mission was launched from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

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PSLV-C53 is the second dedicated mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a corporate arm of the Department of Space. The spacecraft carried three satellites to Low Earth Orbit, deploying them at an altitude of 570 km measured from the equator.

WATCH | ISRO launches PSLV-C53 mission with three Singapore satellites

The four-staged PSLV mission has a lift-off mass of 228.433 tons and took the DS-EO satellite, NeuSAR, a 155 kg satellite, and Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The spacecraft is also set to test a new technology in which the fourth stage of the launch vehicle will be used to perform in-orbit scientific experiments.

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The mission proposes to demonstrate the utilization of the spent upper stage of the launch vehicle as a stabilized platform for scientific payloads subsequent to the separation of the satellites.

WATCH | ISRO launches PSLV-C53 mission with three Singapore satellites

This was the second PSLV mission of the year after Isro successfully launched the PSLV-C52 mission in February this year by injecting Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04), into an intended sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude. The mission also placed two small satellites, a student satellite INSPIREsat-1, and a technology demonstrator satellite, INS-2TD, a precursor to India-Bhutan Joint Satellite INS-2B.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched three satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The satellites – all are from Singapore – were launched on the PSLV-C53; PSLV stands for Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

ISRO PSLV-C53 Mission With Singapore Satellites Successful

ISRO has announced the PSLV-C53/DS-EO mission on June 30, 2022. The launch is scheduled at 18:00 hours IST from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The countdown of 25 hours leading to the launch started at 1700 hours IST on June 29, 2022.

This launch will be carrying satellites from Singapore. PSLV-C53 carries three satellites. DS-EO, a 365 kg, and NeuSAR, a 155 kg satellite both belonging to Singapore. The third satellite is a 2.8 kg Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

DS-EO carries an Electro-Optic, multi-spectral payload that will provide full-color images for land classification, and serve Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief needs. NeuSAR is Singapore’s first small commercial satellite carrying a SAR payload, which is capable of providing images day and night and under all weather conditions. SCOOB-I satellite is the first satellite in the Student Satellite Series (S3-I), a hands-on student training program from the Satellite Research Centre (SIRC) at Singapore’s NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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History And Continues To Get Away With It When Hollywood Rewrites

 

When Hollywood Rewrites

When Hollywood Rewrites: While Indian films are always criticised for taking cinematic liberties with historical events or portions of history, Hollywood has been doing it for ages, say movie experts.

In the recent years, Hindi films such as ‘Manikarnika’, ‘Panipat’, ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior’, ‘Padmavaat’, and the latest release ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, have been hauled up for their promises to portray historical facts but failing to do so or using a selective portion to suit a particular narrative to gain mass appeal. Many scenes or even characters in films based on history or historical events and figures are purely dramatised and are riddled with historical accuracies.

However, while Bollywood is being targeted for taking the liberty of rewriting history, Hollywood is the bigger culprit. For instance, the protagonist Maximus in ‘Gladiator’ essayed by Russell Crowe was fictional. No such character exists in Roman history. The World War II events depicted in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ are entirely fictionalised. Both movies were box-office successes, but the problem arose when a section of the audience believed that the fictionalised accounts are true.

When Hollywood Rewrites History And Continues To Get Away With It

While Kishi says she’s aware that apart from creative liberties, red tape and controversies can also hinder storytellers from delivering 100 per cent accuracy, fidgeting with the past is still unjustifiable. “How can one re-write history in the name of creativity and serve the audience with twisted facts? Tweaking facts just to make the movie more interesting is not fair. It’s not that we don’t have fiction as a genre to explore. We do, and we do it right. But let’s not fictionalise and re-write history, rather serve it straight up with utmost sincerity and authenticity,” she adds.

However, will mere reproduction of facts devoid of experimentation provide moviemakers with a limited area to explore their creativity? Senior journalist and independent filmmaker, Akshay Acharya, tries to solve this conundrum. While history comprises different aspects of human civilisation like sociology, politics, and ideologies, he says it’s important to note that history also comprises science and art. And that both these fields thrive when allowed to experiment and toy around with possibilities as much as possible. He says, “Imagine if the cavemen (Homo erectus) didn’t accidentally light up the fire, our food habits and way of life would have looked very different today. Would there have been as many delicacies on our plate? Culinary art would never have made it to modern life because application of heat is vital for any edible substance.” 

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Similarly, he says, what if artists never dared to experiment? “There wouldn’t be Yngwie Malmsteen or Neoclassical metal because the genre itself is a derivative of metal and classical music. Stories arising from alternate or fictionalised history also deserve to be told. However, such accounts must carry a disclaimer that these stories are a figment of imagination. The onus for consumption of such content would then lie on the audience. It would be up to them what they make of it.”

Even foreign literature, from which a lot of Hollywood historical films have taken inspiration, also tries to fictionalise certain portions of history or introduce purely fictional characters. Writer Sujata Parashar feels while portraying history through films, the makers must be mindful that there’s a delicate line between fact and fiction. She says, “But it’s not easy to draw this line as even history has many versions and almost always been written by the victors. Making a historical film is therefore a risk many Indian and western filmmakers have taken in the past. And it has not been an easy road.” She adds that it is not only films but also historical fiction writers who face the same dilemma. “My good friend and author, Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran, had spent years researching on Shivaji and Sambhaji before she wrote books on both historical figures. When I read the books, I wanted to be sure about certain parts and so looked up articles and history books, and even had lengthy discussions with Medha before I concluded that history and its depiction in movies or fiction novels may be entertaining, but must not to be confused as a medium to educate oneself. You never know when history ends and fiction begins,” cautions Parashar.

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For instance, ‘Inglorious Basterds’ rewrote the end portion of World War II. As the film became a massive global success, all over the globe, many people who didn’t know the real history ended up believing what the movie showed. Film writer-director, Madhureeta Anand feels this kind of creative call has to do with how and why filmmakers want to rewrite history. “It could be artistic liberty or propaganda. There’s a big difference between the two, and filmmakers always know which one it is. Also, it depends on how the publicity is done. In the case of ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, the promos claimed the information should be documented in school textbooks. Inglorious Basterds never did that. When there’s a malafide intention to change history, filmmakers should be stopped from claiming it’s real,” she observes.

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Anand adds that while she’s absolutely against any kind of censorship. She says, “Filmmakers should put a disclaimer and be stopped from making publicity claims that what is being portrayed in the movie is real”. Adding to it, author and screenwriter Amish Tripathi says, “As has been said once, the difference between real life and fiction is that fiction is supposed to make sense! From the dawn of history, storytellers have interpreted history to write stories. Some of those stories have succeeded, and some have not. I think we should leave this subject between storytellers and their audiences.”

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Traffic snarls, waterlogging as monsoon hits Delhi Read more at

 

Monsoon showers lash capital

monsoon showers lash capital: The IMD has issued an orange alert, warning of moderate rainfall in the city on June 30. The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, the weather office said. 

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On Wednesday, IMD had said conditions are favourable for the monsoon to reach Delhi

The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, it said

The southwest monsoon usually arrives in the national capital on June 27

Delhi Temperature Today, Delhi Weather Today: Heavy rains lashed Delhi and adjoining areas on Thursday, following which the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today declared the arrival of the monsoon in Delhi-NCR. Taking to Twitter, the weather department today said, “Southwest monsoon has further advanced into entire Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, some parts of Rajasthan, entire Delhi, some parts of Punjab and Haryana today.”

Monsoon showers lash capital after long wait

The mercury settled at 27.6 degrees Celsius in the morning. This comes a day after Delhi had struggled under sultry weather on Wednesday, with the weather office forecasting light overnight rains. 

On Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said conditions are favourable for the monsoon to reach the national capital either on Thursday or Friday.

The IMD has issued an orange alert, warning of moderate rainfall in the city on June 30. The maximum temperature will come down to 33-34 degrees Celsius by July 1, the weather office said. 

The southwest monsoon usually arrives in the national capital on June 27.

A video shared by news agency ANI showed rains lashed the Dwarka area of Delhi today morning. 

Monsoon showers lash Chandigarh, parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi

Senior IMD Scientist RK Jenamani said there is a prediction of good rainfall in the city on June 30 and the arrival of the monsoon can be declared on Thursday or Friday.

Last year, the IMD had forecast that the monsoon would arrive in Delhi nearly two weeks before its usual date. However, it reached the capital only on July 13, making it the most delayed in 19 years.

Asked about the delay in the arrival of the monsoon in Delhi, the senior scientist said a gap of around five days is considered normal.

Maharashtra’s Monsoon Activity Takes Off: Heavy Rains to Lash Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri from June 18-22

According to IMD data, the monsoon covered Delhi 29 times in June and 33 times in July in the last 62 years. The IMD had in 2020 revised the date of monsoon arrival in Delhi from June 29 to June 27.

Weather experts have said the monsoon is expected to yield good rainfall in Delhi in the first 10 days and help cover the rain deficit.

On Wednesday, Delhi’s base station recorded a maximum temperature of 40.9 degrees Celsius. Humidity levels oscillated between 51 per cent and 70 per cent.

Saturday, June 18: While it has been over a week since the southwest monsoon arrived in several parts of Maharashtra, including its capital city Mumbai, the statewide rainfall activity for a majority of this period has remained low. But this looks set to change starting this weekend, with the season’s first heavy rain spell expected to lash multiple Maharashtrian subdivisions.

Watch: Rain In Parts Of Mumbai, 2 Days Before Monsoon Arrival

Visuals shared by news agency ANI motorists navigating on Western Express Highway amid rain.

New Delhi: 

Several parts of Mumbai witnessed moderate to heavy rainfall this morning, two days before the expected arrival of monsoon in the city. The weather agency has predicted cloudy skies with a possibility of rain or thundershowers for the next two days (Thursday and Friday) over the financial capital.

Visuals shared by news agency ANI motorists navigating on Western Express Highway amid rain. The pre-monsoon showers were a welcome relief for the city’s residents amid the rising heatwave conditions in Maharashtra.

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