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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
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Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
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Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Short answer: it looks mostly like additional funding of research, esp. salaries for post-docs, technicians, research staff etc. I've opened comments if any readers have comments on the linked analysis.
(Thanks to Chris Morris for the pointer.)
In order to obtain meaningful results, the author would have had to educe more granular information. Harvard's different schools and faculties are financially independent of each other: each has its own endowment, sets its own tuition and reimbursement rates, etc. Particularly insofar as the author's interest is in (undergraduate) tuition increase, s/he would need to focus on data about the Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone. Here's one example: available in the FAS budget statement, undergraduate financial aid rose (in constant dollars) from $100 million in 2004 to $200 million in 2019. That means that net of financial aid, the FAS actually took in less in undergraduate tuition in 2019.
The author does point to anomalous growth in the number of employees who are categorized as Non-Faculty Academic Staff. Here FAS statistics are provided, and we see growth in FAS + Engineering (counted as part of FAS in 2004 and separately in 2019) from 594.4 to 1280, i.e., more than doubling. This is a mystery even to me, an insider, and would seem to require more research rather than seat-of-the-pants speculation.
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