Since I work mainly with accountants types, they nearly killed 
themselves achieving perfection on this task. Fortunately, they also 
nearly killed the finance types and then the IT and never had the 
stomach to take on me and Darren!!

Sally

Michael O'Hara wrote:
> ALSBTALK:
>
> Ranking of journals is a recurring topic and therefore I will make a 
> recurring post.  AACSB in no way requires a ranking of journals. Many 
> (totally incompetent?) Deans who serve as members of AACSB Peer Review 
> Teams (PRT) do suggest ranking of journals, however.
>
> http://cba.unomaha.edu/faculty/mohara/web/RankJournals.pdf
>
> Obviously, any well constructed ranking system would, PRIOR to 
> initiation to any ranking system that implements a college's Mission 
> (i.e., the purported goal of AACSB), answer every one of these 
> question unambiguously.  (Would a competent administrator avoid 
> answering any of these questions?)  That said, my experience is that 
> the answers offered for question #16 (see, page 4, line 150) reveals 
> so much of the proposers true intent that nearly zero faculty members 
> will support any ranking system after hearing those answers.
>
> My current Dean, who was as a volunteer faculty member of the 
> committee last proposing ranking of journals at my college switched 
> from proponent to opponent after thinking through this list of very 
> simple questions.
>
> Tactically, I suggest being an ardent supporter of ranking of journals 
> ____if____ all of these questions are answered unambiguously PRIOR to 
> implementing a college's ranking of journals. That way you garner 
> support among both the pro and the con as well as only implement a 
> plan that every one agrees to.
>
> Michael
>
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