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Beyond hiring with both research and teaching priorities in mind, the new FAS dean should also consider borrowing the time of faculty from across the University to alleviate the teaching crunch. While FAS has a high student-faculty ratio in the social sciences, there are many top-notch teachers at places like the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education who would love to teach liberal arts courses to undergraduates. Currently, Harvard’s other faculties are an underutilized resource. The new dean should take steps to facilitate such inter-school cooperation which would improve pedagogy...
...Harvard president’s office moved from University Hall into the bottom floors of Mass. Hall. Parts of the top two floors of the building, however, are still used to house around 20 first-year college students. In a college constantly criticized for its high student-faculty ratio and lack of University attention to undergrads, housing 20 “lowly” undergrads mere feet away from University’s top administrators—namely the president and the provost—carries a deep symbolic value. Regardless of the fact that President-elect Drew G. Faust...
...News researchers evaluate the schools based on factors such as selectivity, peer and professional assessment, student-faculty ratio, and post-graduation employment...
...News researchers evaluate the schools based on factors such as selectivity, peer and professional assessment, student-faculty ratio, and post-graduation employment...
Underscoring the need for continued expansion, Knowles presented a bar graph showing last year’s ratio of 14.6 students per “ladder” faculty—tenured and tenure-track professors—as compared to 9.9 students at Yale (in 2004-2005) and 10.7 students at Princeton. Stanford and UC Berkeley, on the other hand, were shown to compare unfavorably with Harvard’s ratio...