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...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and a longtime Harvard administrator, said the rise in grades can largely be attributed to academically stronger student bodies and faculty legislation that liberalized pass/fail policies...
...more clustering there is, then there's a smaller chance you will get in one of your choices," says Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation. "Maybe there was a change in the thinking of the students...
...ordered choice is clearly not the solution. Statistics prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students selected "unpopular" houses as a safe second or third choice...
...lack of statistical information about theeffects of these other plans has limiteddiscussion, masters said. A study two weeks ago byDean K. Whitla, director of the Office ofInstructional Research and Development, indicatedthat although a non-ordered choice system allowingthree choices would significantly lower the numberof students receiving their first-choice houses,about 90 percent would still receive one of theirchoices...
Last March a high-level faculty committee, headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 issued a report containing pointed criticisms of the University's faculty recruitment and positive suggestions for reforms. Although the Verba Committee report has not been so grievously neglected as the Whitla Report of 1980, it seems destined to produce regrettably little substantive change...