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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Simply put, Pomona is the best LAC in America. [/quote]
LOL
If you like tiny, woke and lacking CS, it’s fabulous. The ongoing nonsense with the administration is the icing on the cake.[/quote]
It has a CS department…with 10 tenured faculty…that’s been running for decades…[/quote]
For parents out there, the CS lottery was lifted this year; they actually have excess cs courses and can teach more electives now! With access to Pomona CS and Harvey mudd electives, 100% worth it. Lot of alum at Google.[/quote]
Dream on — from parent of a current junior. You Pomona boosters are insufferable — stop making things sound so much better than they are. Three profs are on leave. Others are not tenured. And the admin is a revolving door.
https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/computer-science/faculty-staff[/quote]
Professors go on leave at every institution. Any good institution should have a sabbatical process that is consistent and where subjects don't overlap. 
There are factually 10 tenure-track (not tenured) professors. There is only one individual on there who is not on the tenure track, which is not common at LACs, which tend to depend on lecturer/visiting labor, this is actually a [b]good[/b] thing. I can't help you with the admin issue, because you posted nothing indicating that to be true.

What I can see is that you are catastrophizing a bit. 10 tenure track professors is pretty decent for such a small college. Amherst has the same amount of faculty as Pomona, and it has 200 more students.[/quote]

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