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Until recently, Whitla's office used results of the CUE survey to status the performance of graduate student teaching follows. Section leaders scoring below a 3.0 on the CUE ratings were routinely removed from teaching positions or "invited" to brush up their teaching skills at the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Whitla says...
While a random lottery poses many problems satisfaction with the present system continues to rise. The Whitla Verba survey from the spring of 1983 showed that on a scale of 1 to 5 I representing high satisfaction with the present system, students average 'a 1.9 in 1983 compared with a 3.3 1973. In 1994 69 percent of Harvard freshmen received their top choice House while 91 percent of freshmen were assigned to one of their three choices. In the words or one eminent and farsighted Master "if it ain't broken...
...first comprehensive study, showing wide differences in the demographic composition of the Houses, was completed in January 1982 by Dean K.Whitla director of the Office of Instructional Research Among Whitla's findings were that, at the time the study was conducted, Blacks made up 21 and 12 percent of Currier and Leverett Houses, respectively, compared to less than three percent of Kirkland and Leverett Houses, respectively, compared to less than three percent of Kirkland and Eliot...
...Whitla's study also revealed that while athletes comprised just under hall of Kirkland House, they made up less than 5 percent of Adams House...
College administrators reacted to Whitla's study with concern and suggestions for reform of the system In a letter accompanying the report, Dean of the College, John B. Fox Jr '59 wrote that "with respect to race and athletic participation, some Houses that all short of the ideal" House that would be a microcosm of the College...