2014 Investigative Reporting for Print/Online (Large Staff) Finalist: Kansas City Star
Mike Hendricks and Mara Rose Williams | Kansas City Star
The Star found a pattern of exaggerations and misstatements that polished the business school’s reputation as it sought to boost enrollment and open donors’ checkbooks.
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- UMKC’s misleading march to the top
- A deceptive jobs claim keeps cropping up at Bloch School
- Exaggerations mar UMKC applications for Princeton Review rankings
- Gov. Jay Nixon calls for an inquiry into UMKC business school rankings
- Firm reviewing UMKC rankings has worked many years for university system
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