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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's mind-boggling how Pomona approaches this problem.

Oversubscribed demand and interest for classes in a major for which they have only 6 tenured faculty.  Instead of recognizing that they need to add more faculty to support demand for this growing field, their solution is to create a cap on how many students can take these classes and major in CS.  Nonsensical.  
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I count 8 PhD faculty. For a typical school of that size, it's not a bad number.  But for the demand they should hire more. Fortunately they do have posted both an open rank CS prof and a visiting CS asst prof.[/quote]

Of the 8, one is on sabbatical for the full year, one is a dean, and the other is a visiting lecturer. That means only 5 tenure track faculty.[/quote]

As best I can tell, the dean still teaches.  The lecturer, fwiw, has been around for 4 years and is not listed as visiting, but is apparently shared with another institution.  So maybe 6.5 faculty? I am not implying they don’t need more, just trying to nail down where they currently are, staffing wise. [/quote]

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