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...survey will be the most comprehensive study of undergraduate instruction and life in a decade. Dean K. Whitla, director of the Faculty's Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and one of the survey's designers said earlier this year...
...classroom, planned for the spring. The study is worth while because previous, more limited evidence has indicated that men and women both learn and teach differently, women students may respond better to female professors while women professors may, in turn, have difficulty establishing authority with male students. Dean K. Whitla, director of the Harvard-Danforth Center that will conduct the study, said that if the findings confirm these trends, they may encourage the University to hire more female professors...
...particular plans are in the works for the results of the spring survey. Whitla said But he added that such bodies as the Faculty Council or the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) would probably address any glaring areas of student unhappiness...
...Whitla said that the survey's planners hoped that they would be able to break down the data across various group lines--by department, students group, and class...
...Whitla and Verba said that details of the survey remain to be worked out, but that it should take place sometime just before reading period The late date. Verba said, is intended to make the results as current as possi- ble. The questionnaires will probably be mailed to all undergraduates...