Everyone knows colleges work overtime to make themselves look as good as possible to U.S. News, but a Clemson University staff member recently offered an unusually frank explanation of how rankings-gaming works -- allegedly -- at her institution. Speaking in Atlanta at a conference for members of the Association for Institutional Research, Catherine Watt, until recently in charge of assembling data requested by U.S. News (she has since moved to a different staff job), had the audience gasping at some of the actions she described, according to Inside Higher Education. ...