FROM THE NEST | FALL 2023 | 29 CHRISTA NEU / HOLLY FASCHING ’26 RANKINGS TOP COLLEGE The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking names Lehigh No. 14 in the country. According to the ranking, the America's Best Colleges 2024 list “aims to guide prospective students across the nation while recognizing the colleges doing an outstanding job in higher education.” The final ranking of the top 400 colleges was based on two pillars: Student and Alumni Survey and Student Outcomes Metrics. As part of the survey, more than 60,000 undergraduates and recent undergraduate alumni were asked by College Pulse to provide feedback on colleges that are a great value to their students in terms of tuition, learning environment, degree completion and the likelihood of a higher salary after graduation. It is one of the largest ever independent surveys of college students in the United States. Additionally, the ranking used a variety of metrics around student outcomes to determine the salary impact vs. similar colleges, the number of years to pay off net price and graduation rates vs. similar colleges. An assessment of the level of diversity on campus was also a part of the analysis. The ranking emphasizes how much a college improves its students’ chances of graduating on time and how much it boosts the salaries they earn after graduation. TRESOLINI LECTURE Marketplace Are We Expected to Tip Robots Now? Holona Ochs, associate professor of political science, joined Marketplace to discuss how far American tipping culture could go as our service interactions become more automated. “Adherence to tipping norms in the U.S. is quite high.” CNN Australia’s Having an Intense Flu Season, and It Could Be a Signal of What’s to Come in the U.S. Thomas McAndrew, assistant professor in the Department of Community and Population Health, shares what goes into flu season predictions. “Flu is so difficult to predict because predicting what any infectious disease will do is predicting human behavior.” The Philadelphia Inquirer Fire Causes One Bridge Failure Every Year, Yet Most Are Not Required to Be Fire-Resistant Spencer Quiel, associate professor of structural engineering, tells the Inquirer the steady occurrence of bridge fires has led some transportation agencies to study whether design codes should be revised accordingly. “These are low-probability but high-consequence events.” Lehigh Faculty in the Media “The court is not like Congress. It doesn’t have the power of the purse. It’s not like the president. It doesn’t have the power of the sword. The only thing that makes us obey the court and what it decides is our sense that the court is doing law and not politics.” — Legal expert Melissa Murray, who delivered the 43rd annual Tresolini Lecture on the U.S. Supreme Court
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