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Last fall, responding to abnormally high levels of student dissatisfaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) commissioned McKinsey & Co. to survey disgruntled law students. The results confirm what many of us knew all along: HLS needs to focus more attention on its basic educational issues, such as decreasing class sizes, hiring more faculty and revamping its grading system. HLS has already formed exploratory committees to address some of these issues, but the true test of responsiveness will be whether the administration institutes some, if not all, of these reforms by next fall...
...administration would have to shift resources and commit itself to recruiting and hiring more professors. Currently, the 1999 U.S. World News and World Report ranks Harvard's 20-1 student-faculty ratio the highest of the nations' top 25 law schools. Large classes, according to many responses to the McKinsey survey, contribute to a palpable sense of disconnect between the students and the school. Expectedly, students at law schools with higher student-faculty ratios--such as Yale and Stanford--attribute their higher satisfaction level partly to a more intimate classroom environment...
...fancy Manhattan consulting firm? Like most things at the University, change always requires an impressive amount of money. HLS will need more funds to hire new professors, expand their student financial aid packages and research for the school. But according to HLS administrators, the results of the McKinsey study should be able to provide a persuasive argument for donors and alumni to dig a little bit deeper into their pockets. So, if for nothing else, although the McKinsey study might have only confirmed what students and faculty members have known all along, at least the consulting firm's name might...
...McKinsey [report] persuaded more people to be interested in this issue," Warren says. "I think my committee is enthusiastic about making significant changes in the grading system...
Clark says that current proposals focus increasingly on student need, such as improvement to student housing, student office spaces and athletic facilities that were highlighted in the McKinsey report...