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...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...
Morris P. Fiorina, a former professor of government, left Harvard for Stanford, telling colleagues he "recommends Stanford for faculty and Harvard for undergraduates, because a lot of faculty there only have to teach half the time," MacFarquhar says...
Another one of MacFarquhar's colleagues who has visited Stanford was amazed at the number of people in the political science department who taught part time and spent the rest of the time doing research...
Nevertheless, the student-faculty ratio at Harvard is several times higher than at other top-ranked schools such as Yale, Stanford, New York University, Cornell, University of Chicago and University of Virginia, according to the 1999 U.S. News and World Report law school rankings...
Jean-Claude Latombe, chair of the computer science department at Stanford, says, "technology moves very fast, so the idea is to try to anticipate what is going to be important in five years and develop the theory around that...