Our core philosophy: CollegeTimes promotes critical thinking, moral conviction, and curiosity in a world overrun by corruption and corporatization. Join us in resisting the anti-intellectualism of the postmodern age (and the ultimate dumbing-down of higher education and society), as we connect readers with independent research and intriguing stories that inspire the search for truth, wherever it may be.
History of CollegeTimes
CollegeTimes is run by a small team of designers and writers. Initially launched in 2008 as two projects, CollegeTimes.us and RateMyCollege.us, the projects soon merged into a greater content portal targeting younger generations. The site hosts student reviews of colleges from around the world, along with content aimed primarily at the North American “college” audience including students, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and beyond – especially those who fall into the 18-34 year-old age group. Our main goal is to stimulate thought and honesty in a world overcome by consumerism, legal threats, and interchangeable parts, while organizing valuable information that assists our readers in career planning and other important life decisions. Recently, we’ve also shifted to include a sharper focus on business entrepreneurism and personal finance tips.
Inspiration & Common Themes
- “First make them laugh, and then make them think.” – Unknown
- “Universitas” – the early spirit of the modern university (quickly disappearing)
- “Apokalypsis” – a philosophical idea rooted in Greek regarding human revelation
- “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” – Einstein
Our team is inspired by these historical figures: Plato, Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain, R. Buckminster Fuller, Winston Churchill
Organizing Our College Database
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Legal Threats
CollegeTimes hosts the largest directory of colleges and universities on the internet. We accomplish this by organizing not only the institutions that are currently known about on public databases, but by actively seeking out new schools on a daily basis from a variety of sources.
Many colleges around the world have sister campuses, or specialty campuses, that are not easily discoverable; there is also the problem of campus names being cataloged (in various languages), which often requires translation and/or transliteration.
By leveraging multiple tools, consultants, and lots of determination, the CollegeTimes website now surpasses all other higher education databases around the world. (Yes, really! Every piece of data in our college database is 100% manually researched and verified by our team of editors. We do not pull data from the IPEDS database, or any other public or private API, as we do not “trust” any 3rd party data providers.)
CollegeTimes hosts 100% raw and uncensored college reviews by students and alumni from around the world who have attended these colleges and universities. Every school has student feedback along with a detailed profile including campus statistics, photos, contact information, and other useful information. Formerly known as RateMyCollege, our online database hosts the largest collection of colleges and universities on the internet with a primary focus on the United States and Canada.
CollegeTimes relies on some core guidelines when organizing and marking up the thousands of colleges in our directory. Over the years, our team has experimented with various ‘labels’ on certain institution profiles. Currently, we use the following:
Transparency
An editorial opinion, with no specific factual claims. We label certain institutions ‘Lacks Transparency’ when our team feels that the institution is not being forthright about certain key facts or figures.
If your institution is considering threatening our team, please read below.
Additional Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
Based on past lawsuit threats, we feel the need to clarify the following information. CollegeTimes considers both the compound word “CollegeTimes” and the common nickname “College Times” to be non-exclusive trademarks of its website, as the words are common in the English language and surely exist in many contexts around the world.
However, we fully consider our logo, web design, content, structure, branding, etc. to be our original work with all international rights reserved, and that is how we license this website. Other parties may in NO WAY copy or duplicate the aforementioned items without written permission from our team.
Likewise, CollegeTimes aims to respect other legitimate copyright and trademark holders – if we have improperly used one of your photos, web scripts, or other protected work please let us know.
In addition, please don’t bother sending us threatening emails if your institution is receiving negative user reviews on our college database section. Such reviews are left by 3rd-party students and visitors to our website, and are fully protected under the free speech clause of the U.S. Constitution and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Filing SLAPP lawsuits against web hosts and other entities is a shameful attempt at harassing and intimidating your way to censorship – and valuing profits over morality – and such practices will be aggressively exposed by our team via the web.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
The only exception our team makes in regard to taking down certain user reviews is that any review found to be making unsubstantiated claims of felony (serious) crimes such as assault will be immediately removed, in accordance with our Terms Of Service. If such reviews are posted, we have in the past and will continue to work with law enforcement officials who request our cooperation in their related investigations.
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