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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there is a real commitment at Tulane. The student to instructional faculty is 8 to 1, average is 12 to 1. More full time instructional faculty(61%) vs average(51%) and less teaching staff that are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty(39% vs national average 49%). This is a little more then just a marketing campaign. [/quote]

+1 Tulane has made a major investment its growth and I think it's great.  One thing I also look for (not just for Tulane, but also for similarly strategizing colleges) is their financial plan for when the sheen of rapid growth wears off.  It's one thing courting donors when you're making this kind of major investment.  But all the things they are doing (tenure track faculty, supporting diversity, lots of merit money) are very expensive.  Will they have the support to sustain/maintain the model once the initial thrill of rapid growth is gone?
Since Tulane is a R1 university, supporting more tenure track faculty will likely mean more research grants etc. so it may pay off.  [/quote]

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