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...also implied the department needs more professors. "No chair will ever say they've got enough faculty, that would send the wrong message to the Dean [of the Faculty]," MacFarquhar said. "Our ratio of faculty-to-students is not favorable relative to other comparable institutions. [We need] more faculty to shoulder the burden...
...first priorities, MacFarquhar said, is to maintain the department's stature. "The department is reckoned to be the best department in the country. The chair's prime aim is to keep it there. We can't just relax on the laurels U.S. News [and World Report] or whoever throws...
...MacFarquhar said the department must address the vacancies created by departing professors, including the turnover of some junior faculty. He also pointed specifically to the department's loss of Thomson Professor of Government Morris P. Fiorina--who has accepted a post at Stanford--as a departure which creates a gap in the department's American studies branch...
...MacFarquhar has been active in both his department and the Core curriculum, teaching classes including Government 90ax: "Crucial Events in Chinese Elite Politics" and Foreign Cultures 48: The Cultural Revolution...
...MacFarquhar said he feels prepared for the job. "One way or another we learn, but there's nothing like doing it," he said...