Word: reportable
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...members have clamored for smaller class sizes, which would require a smaller student-faculty ratio. If HLS were to reduce the size of its classes, the administration would have to shift resources and commit itself to recruiting and hiring more professors. Currently, the 1999 U.S. World News and World Report ranks Harvard's 20-1 student-faculty ratio the highest of the nations' top 25 law schools. Large classes, according to many responses to the McKinsey survey, contribute to a palpable sense of disconnect between the students and the school. Expectedly, students at law schools with higher student-faculty ratios...
Break computing down to its basics and there's a circuit that can be switched on or off, representing the zeroes and ones of digitized data. In today's issue of Science magazine, IBM researchers report that they've managed to shrink those circuits down to the atomic level, a triumph of nanotechnology that could result in a hundredfold increase in disk drive capacity. Just when you were getting used to your 10-gigabyte hard disk, now we're talking one terabyte...
Nevertheless, the student-faculty ratio at Harvard is several times higher than at other top-ranked schools such as Yale, Stanford, New York University, Cornell, University of Chicago and University of Virginia, according to the 1999 U.S. News and World Report law school rankings...
Clark says that current proposals focus increasingly on student need, such as improvement to student housing, student office spaces and athletic facilities that were highlighted in the McKinsey report...
...administrators say the money and change are worth it because the report and its results prompted students and faculty to talk openly with each other...