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Dartmouth's anthropology and classics departments elicit high student satisfaction ratings, while biology maintains its traditionally low marks, according to a just-published Student Assembly report on departmental performance at the College.
Steve Koutsavlis '05 presented a report assessing the performance of the College's academic departments at the final Student Assembly meeting of the term last night.
Over 50 pages long, the report provides extensive information on each department, including number of professors, majors and major-to-faculty ratio; number of classes offered within the department, average class size, median class size and ratings on various aspects of the academic experience.
"We hope this assessment helps provoke a discussion about the future allocation of resources for teaching at Dartmouth and assists prospective majors in choosing a department that best suits their needs," the report's cover letter said.
Koutsavlis, the Assembly's vice president of academic affairs, and Mark Herman '06, vice chair of the academic affairs committee, spent the past year compiling the report based on results from an online survey sent out to majors last spring.
