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Letters
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U.S. News aplogigizes We at U.S. News deeply regret the fact that Wittenberg University was left off our list of Best National Liberal Arts Colleges in the August 30, 1999 issue of our magazine.
We hope that the three million page-visitors to our website each week, year-round, and the one million or so buyers of our college guide book will somewhat mitigate our inadvertent error in the magazine. The fact that U.S. News depends heavily on the cooperation of universities like Wittenberg to give us the data that make our rankings possible is one more reason that we regret our error. Peter Cary
Editor’s Note: The following was submitted in response to the university’s first press release concerning U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” issue, published Aug. 30, 1999. It should also be noted that Dr. E. Charles Chatfield retired in May 1999. I felt compelled to respond. I graduated in the Class of ’70 and have always valued the education I received at Wittenberg. I had extremely positive experiences with my classes and felt the level of integrity amongst the staff was excellent. I was particularly impressed with the high level of student-professor interaction. As just one of many examples, at one point I was tempted to transfer to a university with a wider variety of classes offered in my major, but was encouraged by Dr. Charles Chatfield to remain and never regretted it. He subsequently encouraged me to submit an application to the American University studies program and with his guidance, I was accepted. I know that Dr. Chatfield still teaches at Wittenberg, and you must be very proud of that fact. I always knew that Wittenberg was considered one of the best colleges in the state as well as the country when I attended and am pleased to know that the tradition of excellence continues. Susan Harmon, ’70
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was solely due to a production error and not to any omissions by Wittenberg
in our annual colleges survey. Indeed, perusers of our website or U.S. News'
America's Best Colleges book for the year 2000 will find Wittenberg listed.
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