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Re:U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings by dragonwriter on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:44PM (#32063691)
> I FOIA requested a lot of universities

FOIA only applies to federal government agencies, universities (other than ones operates by the federal government, like the service academies) aren't subject to it.

State universities might be covered by state sunshine laws that are similar to FOIA, and generally the laws and policies around those only require a request from the public and aren't too particular about form or citing a completely wrong and irrelevant legal basis, so in that case an “FOIA” request might actually have some legal effect. But most private universities would just see it as a particularly pompously written discretionary request.

Re:U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings by Kon-Peki on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:26PM (#32064040)
No, there are definitely FOIA laws that apply to public universities. The post was calling out UIUC and this is their web page about it [1]

But I am really curious about the argument against the requested survey data. The poster linked to his web page which specifically lists UIUC as being exemplar and providing data without even the need for a formal FOIA request.

[1] https://www.uillinois.edu/erc/foia

Re:U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings by lettergram on Monday July 11, 2022 @09:05PM (#32064308)
With the data I’d be able to prove a degree isn’t worth it. Which was what I was planning on making - enter your degree, high school gpa, we could predict the likely outcome.

I’m sure they knew that lol

I requested: country of origin, gender, degree, gpa, salary range, field of work and a couple other fields I forget now.