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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Financial considerations also play a part in the University's desire to retire professors at 70. As student enrollments drop every year, the ratio of faculty members to students increases as available budget funds drop...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Age Law Spurs Tenure Angst | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

Honor Code Schools Ratio of Cases Per Students Annapolis 1:218 Dartmouth 1:342 Hamilton 1:107 Haverford 1:119 Mount Holyoke 1:209 Stanford 1:505 Virginia ** 1:314 West Point 1:197 Wellesley ** 1:288 William and Mary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reported Frequency of Academic Dishonesty | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...Honor Code Schools Ratio of Cases Per Students Columbia 1:192 Cooper Union 1:917 Cornell ** 1:5733 HARVARD 1:163 Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reported Frequency of Academic Dishonesty | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Vice-President for Financial Affairs Thomas O'Brien attributed Harvard's 6.9 percent increase to the rise in faculty salaries. "If you don't change your student-faculty ratio, then the increase in wages and salaries translates into a direct change in costs," he said...

Author: By Eli G. Attie, | Title: College Costs Going Up, Faculty Salaries Blamed | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...fact: American women, from girlhood on, are less likely than males to be intrigued by computers. In a survey of high school computer- programming classes in Michigan, California and Maryland, for example, boys outnumbered girls 2 to 1. A nationwide sampling of computer summer camps found a boy-girl ratio of 3 to 1. A Johns Hopkins study released in August reported that at the typical middle school, only 15% of the after-school computer users were female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: From Programs to Pajama Parties | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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