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...says Dean K. Whitla, the University's survey maven: "The timing is unrelated to the results...
...Harvard may have opened a can of worms that is smellier than it counted on. Officials deny that they have any intention of delaying the release of the results but one associate professor says. "Because of the results, they may not be interested in speeding it up." Dean K. Whitla, whose office handles many of the University's surveys and statistics, says the opposite is true, that "we are pushing more rapidly than usual...
Another difference between departments is the job market. Overall, academia has become in the last few years a "buyer's market," with too few positions for too many scholars. But the situation varies by field. In the humanities and languages--south of the Yard, as Whitla says--young teachers are reportedly hardest off. "I was very pleased to get this job," says one assistant professor. "I had trouble finding a job...I try to operate in a way that will make it easier for me to find another...
...seems that the consensus is that there are two top schools," said Dean K. Whitla director of instructional research and evaluation. "However, the standard error you can expect in a sample that size is two to three times larger than the difference between the two figures." he added...
...admissions office uses a magic formula developed by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research, to help them categorize all applicants. Admissions officials plug a student's standardized test scores and high school grades into his formula and place the results on a graph of Harvard students' grades. The position predicts what a potential acceptee's class rank will be when he or she comes to Harvard Whitla says the test is usually 80-90 percent accurate Yet Jewett emphasizes that the formula merely provides just one of many ways of classifying all the students...