<p>Also, while the faculty-student ratios may be totally accurate, it’s implications for full time faculty teaching undergraduates may be deceptive if faculty are able to “buy” their time through research grants. When I was in graduate school at Stanford and then working at UCLA, it was not uncommon for a faculty member to have a research grant that “paid” them not to teach one or more of the courses they would otherwise have to teach.</p>
<p>After Larry Summers left the post of Harvard President, he was still a faculty member. He had tenure, after all. Plus he’s still a brilliant economist, even if he didn’t have all the political and social skills necessary to be successful as Harvard’s President.</p>