Question: A female journalist for the magazine known for its annual rankings of American colleges and universities broke the story about which Bush appointee?

Context articles: Legacy preferences
List of liberal arts colleges
Rockhurst University
Washington Monthly
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Student Leader (magazine)
Ayelish McGarvey
Hudson Prize
Rankings of universities in Canada
Project on the Status and Education of Women

Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution, with college admissions being the field in which legacy preferences are most controversially used.
 (Students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.)
 Regarding college admissions, legacy admissions are practiced almost exclusively at American colleges and universities and are virtually unheard of in post-secondary institutions in other countries around the world.
 Legacy preferences in elite college and university admissions in the U.S. are widespread: almost three-quarters of research universities and nearly all liberal arts colleges grant legacy preferences in admissions.
 Schools vary in how broadly they extend legacy preferences, with some schools granting this favor only to children of undergraduate alumni, while other schools extend the favor to children, grandchildren, siblings, nephews, and nieces of alumni of undergraduate and graduate programs.
 Preferential treatment based on legacy routinely grants legacies substantial bonus points on their admissions assessments and extra consideration if their applications are initially rejected.
 As a body of entering freshmen, legacies almost invariably have substantially lower GPAs and SAT scores than the larger body of entering freshmen, and, during their undergraduate careers, legacies as a body of students typically perform worse than the overall student body.
 A 2005 analysis of 180,000 student records obtained from nineteen selective colleges and universities found that, within a set range of SAT scores, being a legacy raised an applicant's chances of admission by 19.7 percentage points.
Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges or universities with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts.
 The "Encyclopædia Britannica Concise" offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum."
 Although the genesis for what is known today as the liberal arts college began in Europe, the term is commonly associated with the United States.
 Liberal arts colleges are found in countries all over the world as well.
 See the list (link) of international members of the Association of American Colleges and Universities for other institutions offering liberal arts education programs.
Rockhurst University is a private, coeducational Jesuit university located in Kansas City, Missouri.
 Founded in 1910 as Rockhurst College, the school adheres to the motto etched into the stone of the campus bell tower: "Learning, Leadership, and Service in the Jesuit Tradition."
 It is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
 Rockhurst University is accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Helzberg School of Management recently gained accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
 Rockhurst was ranked as number 19 in the 2012 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings of the Best Universities – Masters Midwest category, and Rockhurst has consistently appeared in the top fifteen universities in this category.
 In August 2009, "Forbes" magazine and the "Center for College Affordability & Productivity" (CCAP) published its annual college rankings list of America's Best Colleges.
 Of the more than 4,000 collegiate institutions in the United States, Forbes and the CCAP ranked Rockhurst University No. 250 in the nation and No. 3 in Missouri.
Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C. The magazine is known for its annual ranking of American colleges and universities, which serve as an alternative to the "Forbes" and "U.S. News & World Report" rankings.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is a national association headquartered in Washington, D.C, United States.
 It focuses on improving undergraduate education and advancing liberal education.
 Founded in 1915, AAC&U comprises more than 1,350 member institutions — including accredited public and private colleges, community colleges, research universities, and comprehensive universities.
Student Leader, founded in 1992 by W.H. "Butch" Oxendine, Jr., is a national college magazine that focuses on campus leaders, student governments, clubs, and organizations at American colleges and universities.
 In 2004, "Student Leader" became the official magazine of the American Student Government Association.
 The magazine was published quarterly until 2007 when it ceased print version.
 "Student Leader" is widely read at more than 1,000 colleges and universities across the nation.
Ayelish McGarvey is a journalist covering the religious right.
 Her articles have appeared in "The Nation", "The American Prospect", "Washington Monthly", and other liberal publications.
 In a cover story for "The Nation", she broke the story about Bush appointee David Hager's personal life.
 
The Hudson Prize is an American literary award for a collection of poetry or fiction.
 The award is administered by Black Lawrence Press.
 It was previously awarded, under a different endowment, as the Ontario Prize.
 "Poets & Writers" magazine has consistently listed it as a “top ten” literary prize in its annual rankings.
 It is the largest and longest-running single category/multiple genre book prize in the United States.
 In 2013, three of the twenty-five recipients of National Endowment for the Arts grants were past winners of the Hudson Prize.
Several publications in Canada release annual rankings of Canadian Universities.
 Most notably, rankings of universities in Canada is published annually by news magazine "Maclean's" under the name Maclean's University Rankings which began in 1991.
 Other publications include online sources such as The World University Rankings and CollegeSage's annual Canadian University Rankings.
 The primary aim of the rankings is to inform potential undergraduate applicants about Canadian universities based on a range of criteria, including student body characteristics, classes, faculty, finances, library, and reputation.
 The rankings are split into three categories: schools that focus on undergraduate studies with few to no graduate programs, schools that have both extensive undergraduate studies and an extensive selection of graduate programs and schools that have a professional medical program and a selection of graduate programs.
 A notable difference between rankings in the United States and "Maclean's" rankings, however, is that "Maclean's" excludes privately funded universities.
The Project on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW) was the first United States project focused on gender equity in education.
 Formed in 1971 by the Association of American Colleges (AAC), known today as the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), PSEW worked to improve access to and equity within higher education for women, addressing the needs of university students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
 PSEW produced and distributed materials about the status of women in higher education, advised colleges and universities about policies related to affirmative action, women’s studies programs, and hiring women faculty, and worked with policymakers to introduce legislation to improve gender equity in American higher education.
 PSEW’s periodical, "On Campus with Women" (OCWW), ran from 1971-2013 through the AACU, publishing articles and research related to women in higher education.
 PSEW also played a significant role in the development and passage of Title IX, the portion of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination in education on the basis of sex.