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The Record is reporting that Waterloo and Laurier are staying in the Maclean's rankings after 11 universities announced that they would not participate.

Schools stand by Maclean's
Karen Kawawada
16 Aug 2006

The University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph didn't sign on to the snubbing letter to Maclean's the 11 protesting university presidents made public on Monday.

"Waterloo is committed to participating but we're monitoring the situation as it unfolds," said Bob Truman, director of the office that prepares the data sent to Maclean's.

But although it's not Plan A, there is still a chance the University of Waterloo may pull out of this year's rankings, Truman said.

Maclean's has stated it will continue to include the non-participating universities in the rankings and will get the data with or without co-operation.

"We have a bit of a concern that Maclean's, if they go and get data from the non-participants from some other source, that the methodology might not be the same for all the institutions," Truman said.

"They might not be asking the same question or getting the same answer, so we're kind of worried there might be an apples-and-oranges kind of result."

• 11 universities bail out of Maclean's survey [CBC.ca] 15 Aug 2006