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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1030823, member: 636"]
As I understand it, the fluff is on the administrative side.  Your assertion about the increase in students not being met with an increase in faculty is not supported by the public data that is out there.

SU has a 16:1 student to faculty ratio and has what I believe is one of the best FT/PT faculty ratios in the nation at 65.1% being FT and 34.9% being PT

As an example here is a BC  (which is way above is terms of rankings) vs SU comparison:

Student/faculty ratio:  13:1 vs 16:1

Classes with < 20 students: 52.2% vs 63%
Between 20-49: 40.8% vs 27.9%
50 or more: 7% vs 9.1%

Total Faculty - 1508 vs 1563
FT Faculty - 761 (50.5% of the total) vs 1019 (65.1% of the total)
PT Faculty - 747 (49.5% of the total) vs 544 (34.9% of total)

The real issue appears to be, as you hinted at above, is the admissions policies, or rather specifically the admissions acceptance rate that results from the admissions policies:

28.8% acceptance rate at BC vs a 51.3% acceptance rate at SU.

The change in the admissions policies was supposedly designed to attract more students of color, yet in this regard, the students of color at SU now 43.5% isn't that much higher percentage-wise than BC's 40% with the biggest difference being in the Black/African American student population at SU (8%) versus BC (3.3%).

Cheers,
Neil
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