Word: berkeleys
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...American Association of University Professors reports that Harvard Faculty members have the highest average salary in the country (more than $17,500 a year), but the American Council on Education decides that the University of California at Berkeley is a better school. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, agrees to set up a committee for studying tutor's proposed changes but neglects to say when or who will be on it. The Med School lightens its first-year students work load. Summer school applications are up 300 per cent. Freshmen are assigned to Houses, but almost all of them...
...perplexed by the American Council on Education's assessment of graduate schools [May 27]. I am confused by the conclusion that Berkeley is "best balanced" when Harvard appears to lead Berkeley in four of five fields. Harvard is in first place nine times to Berkeley's seven, in first or second place 16 times to Berkeley's nine. Not until we consider third position does Berkeley pull ahead by one department. Is it logical to assign as much weight to third place as to first? I am further confused by a classification that assigns three...
...study should include either all major types of graduate professional schools (law, medicine, business, engineering, etc.) or none. The council's study included only engineering. Harvard has no engineering school, but it does have outstanding graduate professional schools in many areas, in most of which it far outshines Berkeley. Returning to weighting, and omitting professional schools, I allowed three points for a "first," two for a "second," one for a "third." The results were Harvard 42, Berkeley 31! Yale received 16 points to Stanford's eight; yet you report Cartter as ranking Stanford third...
...A.B.D. and more formally termed the Certificate of Candidacy, pending agreement on a more apt name. The aim, says Northwestern Graduate Dean Robert Baker, is to "impress the educational world with the validity of this stage of training." The Graduate Council at the University of California's Berkeley campus is studying a faculty recommendation to offer a similar degree to be called a Doctor of Arts...
Defter Dissertations. A different attack on the problem is to reform the dissertation. Berkeley English Professor Charles Muscatine calls the present Ph.D. "narrow, specialized and constipated. What is needed is a more human and intelligent relationship between the student's training and his thesis." Many dissertations are tedious tomes, running up to a thousand pages and taking two or more years to write-and seemingly almost as long for an outsider to read...