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...member of the economics faculty, Summers taught in a department which now suffers from a very high student-faculty ratio and low marks for undergraduate advising...
What is worrisome, however, is that they are few and far between. The National Association of School Nurses recommends a student-to-nurse ratio of 750 to 1; most of NASN's members, however, serve 1,000 to 2,500 students. To help alleviate the shortage, a growing number of states--including California, Virginia and Florida--are considering investing money from tobacco-lawsuit settlements in hiring nurses. The hope is that with more nurses, school districts will be able to see successes like those at a 3,000-pupil district in McComb, Miss...
Even when "non-ladder" faculty (lecturers) are included in the calculation, Harvard's student to faculty ratio of eight to one lags behind those of Yale (7:1) and Princeton...
...student then asked if anything was being done to cut down on large class sizes and increase focus on undergraduate teaching. Rudenstine said it is difficult for professors to balance both research and teaching. But he said the University does not make any attempts to misrepresent its student-faculty ratio...
...hide the fact that our classes are larger, that our undergraduate student body is larger. But we still have the best student body. We still have, across the board, the best faculty and the best resources." But, he said, attempts will be made to improve the student-faculty ratio...