We won't do it, so there

Four large Canadian universities have refused to take part in Maclean's magazine survey of graduates. This is not their larger, universities issue but an additional venture, part of a standalone issue focused on the undergraduate culture and experience on Canadian campuses.

The dissenters (University of Toronto,McMaster University, the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta) told Maclean's that they won't send the latest graduate survey to 4,000 randomly selected alumni at each university.

The presidents say they find the Maclean's performance system to be lacking: "We are troubled by the low response rates of past surveys. We have no reason to expect the matters will be different on this occasion. As well, we are not persuaded that Maclean's has the analytic capacity to make appropriate adjustments . . . to take into account differential response rates by institution and region or the difference in institutional profiles."

Could it be they don't like the results?

Read more, from the Globe and Mail story, here.