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Tony




PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:32 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Cervantes wrote:
On a related note, The Globe and Mail released their annual University Report Card today.

Lakehead isn't even listed Confused
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Neo




PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:28 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Whats lakehead?
jamonathin




PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:23 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Neo wrote:
Whats lakehead?

What you dont know what LakeHEad IS!!!11 :surprised:

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Dan




PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:37 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

1st off leave the thunderwolves alone or i will hurt you, it is not there falut they have no one to play agingested. 2ndly that is realy messed up that lakehead is not listed. I mean we are alot biger (by popualtion, repuation, funding and size) then some of the unis on that list and alot more well know them some as well. Lakehead is an offical fully funden canadian univrsity and should be in that list. I blive this is an over sight by the globeandmail and aucatly has me prity pissed off.

Edit: wtf, they have an artical on "The rise of e-classrooms" and lakehead has one of the most adavced election learning classroom bulding in north armaica and they are not even metniond. This realy makes me whonder about the integerity of the globandmail.

Update: I have now writen a letter to the glob and mail asking them why they made such and oversight. I am still awaiting a reply.
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Tony




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:29 am   Post subject: (No subject)

Hacker Dan wrote:
Update: I have now writen a letter to the glob and mail asking them why they made such and oversight. I am still awaiting a reply.

I was gonna suggest you to do it, but you're ahead of the game here Dan Wink I hope you got someone to proofread the letter though.

Oh.. I came across
Quote:

This year's University Report Card reflects the opinion of 26,198 undergraduates, all current full- or part-time students, who are members of the studentawards.com on-line database. Universities that had fewer than 250 students respondents were not included in the rankings

Guess Lakehead has less than 1% of Canada's undergrads Confused
Dan




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:51 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

I all ready toald you in the above post that lakehead has a biger population then some of the univirsitys on there list. Since lakehead is an undergatute school this should be almost all of lakeheads population. I know for a fact that lakehead has more undergrads then nippising for shure.

Edit: what the heck is studentawards.com any how?
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Cervantes




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:57 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Hacker Dan wrote:
Edit: what the heck is studentawards.com any how?


It is a site that will link students up with scholarships. You register, fill out your information, and they show you what awards you could be eligable for.
Tony




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:25 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

I guess this just means that Lakehead students are not eligable for any awards, so they weren't surveyed Confused
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Martin




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:07 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Waterloo's is pretty accurate.

Overall academic reputation of your university - A+
Reputation of university among employers - A+
Reputation for undergraduate studies - A+
...
Attractiveness of campus - C+
Food Services - C+
School spirit - C+
Overall availability of financial assistance - C-
Availability of merit-based scholarships - D
Dan




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:29 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Tony wrote:
I guess this just means that Lakehead students are not eligable for any awards, so they weren't surveyed Confused


Then the survery is not very vaild and it whould be basited to serveral factors. I find it very desterbing that the golb and mail whould do such shoty reporting.
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Hikaru79




PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:55 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

It seems to me that the data was compiled from student input from that site. If Lakehead didn't make it on there, regardless of their population size, it is simply because not enough Lakehead students participated. How is that the Globe's fault?

The survey can't be biased on the G+M's part because, according to my reading, they didn't do anything except relay the findings of surveys filled out ... by students of those universities ...
Dan




PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:38 am   Post subject: (No subject)

Hikaru79 wrote:
It seems to me that the data was compiled from student input from that site. If Lakehead didn't make it on there, regardless of their population size, it is simply because not enough Lakehead students participated. How is that the Globe's fault?

The survey can't be biased on the G+M's part because, according to my reading, they didn't do anything except relay the findings of surveys filled out ... by students of those universities ...


The sorce of the data in a survey can very much basied it. For expalme if u where doing a poll for an eclection and only whent to the ritcher narborhods to ask poelope you whould have a basied to partys like the consterives on the other hand go to a poorer area and you will see a baised to the more socialist partys. If one whonted to pusblish there finds on who they though whould win an election and only used a sorce from one such nabrohod there study/artical whould be very off from the truth.

From the sounds of it this awerdes site dose not apply fully to every univsirty or studtent. So you are not geting an unbasied polling of sutdents. For example since the site is about socerlships and awards the data will be basied to better performing students garde wise since more avg students will not bother looking for socerships if they do not blive there gardes are high enought. This fact alone could very much basied any serveray done from only one sorce.

As journalists the golab and mail should have realsied this basies and conudted there articals with more sorces or a difrent sorce alltoghter.
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Hikaru79




PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:56 am   Post subject: (No subject)

The data was compiled from students who voluntarily registered for a website to participate. Lakehead has internet access, doesn't it? What did you want them to do, send reporters to every University and force those students to register?

And you can't say that Lakehead didn't know about this -- the "Report Card" is a pretty famous thing that they do yearly, even I've heard of it and I'm not even at University yet. It's not the newspaper's fault that out of the entire school population, not even 250 kids felt like signing up. Lakehead was not "overlooked" in any way...
Brightguy




PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:01 am   Post subject: Re: Globe and Mail University Report Card

Actually there's a simple reason why nobody cares - Lakehead resides in Northern Ontario, aka the middle of nowhere.

Seriously though, I lived there my whole life... and it's better when you don't have weekly bear warnings. Laughing
1of42




PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:10 pm   Post subject: (No subject)

Hacker Dan wrote:
1st off leave the thunderwolves alone or i will hurt you, it is not there falut they have no one to play agingested. 2ndly that is realy messed up that lakehead is not listed. I mean we are alot biger (by popualtion, repuation, funding and size) then some of the unis on that list and alot more well know them some as well. Lakehead is an offical fully funden canadian univrsity and should be in that list. I blive this is an over sight by the globeandmail and aucatly has me prity pissed off.

Edit: wtf, they have an artical on "The rise of e-classrooms" and lakehead has one of the most adavced election learning classroom bulding in north armaica and they are not even metniond. This realy makes me whonder about the integerity of the globandmail.

Update: I have now writen a letter to the glob and mail asking them why they made such and oversight. I am still awaiting a reply.


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