U-M begins to eek ahead of Ivy League heavyweights, like Harvard

At this rate it won’t be too long before they start saying, “Harvard, the University of Michigan of the East.”Excerpt:Tough economic times have hurt Harvard University’s public standing in the media over the past nine months, while schools perceived as a safer educational investment have benefited, a research firm said.Global Language Monitor, which ranks colleges and universities based on their appearances in print and other media, said the venerable Ivy League institution has fallen from first to third behind University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Read the rest of the story here.