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...issue is that some of the department??s classes are too large. The ratio of majors to faculty exceeds 14 in economics but falls below five in many departments. Student demand is only one factor determining how faculty slots are allocated, however. As the late FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles put it, one can imagine a university without philosophy majors, but not without a philosophy department. Class sizes will inevitably be greater in the larger concentrations...
...Although Christina Romer cleared the first step to tenure—winning the approval from the economics department??her appointment was overturned by Faust, who declined to comment for this story...
...want to provide any inducement or easy opportunity for students to take economics rather than statistics, as we believe that statistics is valuable and different from economics,” said Jeffrey A. Miron, the economics department??s director of undergraduate studies...
...work doesn’t have to fit into a niche. While growing up, Powers drew lots of comic strips, with Tintin as an early inspiration. But with his arrival at Harvard, his interest in painting intensified. He credits the faculty of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department??including Nancy Mitchnick—and his fellow students with helping him develop his style. “I think the great thing about Harvard is you’ve got a broad range of people doing art,” he says. “From...
...wouldn’t feel like a serious team,” she says. The character of the team isn’t the only issue at hand for Gaber, who is also bothered by “the apparent lack of respect [and] effort from the athletic department?? for club teams. Still, it seems that the decision to change to club status has pleased many of the affected athletes. “I think if JV had been all that I expected it to be then the change might not have been necessary, but I think it?...