Word: cues
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...poised to charge, but the crowd was docile. Most had been carted in by local officials who had lured them with promises of dinner or of passing on to Musharraf requests for help. "Just see the love for our President!" gushed one booster. But the crowd merely cheered on cue...
...rankings, nor do we think that anyone should. Obviously a budding scientist will not choose Slavic Languages and Literatures merely because it is second in our rankings, but the rankings may help an aspiring political scientist decide between Social Studies (ranked 21st) and Government (ranked 36th). As with the CUE Guide, students can also pick and choose what criteria they care most about. Concerned most with tutorial size? You can focus on that part of the rankings. Interested in a concentration’s teachers? The rankings allow you to hone in on students’ evaluations of professors...
...teaching: 5 percent for the percentage of faculty on leave (a concentration is rewarded for having more of its professors teaching, rather than on leave), 5 percent for the percentage of faculty who are tenured, 7.5 percent for the student-to-faculty ratio and 7.5 percent for the average CUE Guide teacher ranking for classes taught by a professor listed as a faculty member of the department or committee...
...next 25 percent is based on classes: 8 percent for average size of the sophomore tutorial (rewarding smaller tutorials), 8 percent for average size of the junior tutorial (again, rewarding smaller tutorials) and 9 percent for the average CUE Guide rating for concentration courses...
Despite these caveats, FM believes that the 2002 ranking of the concentrations will be a helpful guide to those charting the future of their Harvard academic careers. Last year, the Undergraduate Council urged the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to form a guide to concentrations, but the administration has yet to act. As former council president Paul A. Gusmorino ’02 says, “I’d be delighted to find out, five years from now, that there’s a Faculty-sponsored guide to concentrations that was encouraged by this effort...