Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that he believes the club's gender ratio is comparable to any other campus group, "except for the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...soulless. This line of thinking also lays blame at Lucas' door for the even more soulless likes of The Rock, along with responsibility for the so-called blockbuster mentality that currently plagues Hollywood. By way of a response, his publicists have even compiled statistics showing that Hollywood's ratio of "art films" to "blockbuster-type" movies has actually increased since...
...does Harvard, a school with so many resources and talented faculty, so often land us in impersonal lecture halls and sections? What are other-schools doing differently? U.S. News also noted that our student to faculty ratio is twelve to one, four more students per professor than at Princeton. Proportionally, they have 50 percent more faculty members than we do, a fact that spells larger classes and less personal attention...
...more importantly, faculty members must teach and must be rewarded for teaching well. So many appointments require little to no teaching, affording the professor independence and freedom to proceed with his or her research. What good is a twelve to one ratio if each professors teaches a significantly smaller load of courses than do their colleagues at another school? The Independent published a brilliant article a few years ago showing the uncanny correlation between getting the Levenson Award for outstanding teaching and being passed over for tenure. Whatever Harvard's criteria for academic excellence, being an educator is not central...
...student-run organizations. Then, I recalled the conversation I had with Jal before the piece was published. He demanded that I explain why a majority of the 400 members of the IRC were male. Only when I took out a calculator did Jal admit that the IRC's gender ratio was in line with the college as a whole (roughly 55% to 45%). Jal didn't give up, and asked why we had so few women leaders. Never mind the fact that last year's IRC President was female, the heads of three of our six programs are female...