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...formula for the rankings is based on 16 criteria in six main categories: advising, teaching, classes, honors, social events and retention rate. FM has assembled quantitative information on concentrations from the Dean of the College, the Registrar, the CUE Guide, Courses of Instruction and the Handbook for Students in one place for the first time. Some of the data—compiled from questionnaires FM sent to the offices of all 40 concentrations—has never before been publicly released...
...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...
...years Robeson was a legend, a giant, an epic figure, a cue for awe and resentment. He would earn a place in any history of race relations by being the first black man in movies to call a white man "boy."("Take care of the camels, boy," he genially tells his costar in the 1937 "Jericho.") But Robeson was much more than an uppity, or for that matter heroic, film star. Then and now, one gazes up at him and asks: How could one man - and a black man, at a time when African Americans were denied basic rights - have...