There were 67 applications, 60 from males, 2 from females and zero (admitted)transgenders
CHORUS:
that means many deanths
and meaneth few deaness'es
SMALL VOICE FROM A PIT: Let Dean clean what's mean! I mean . . .
By race or origin, there were at least 1 Latin American and 2 Asiatics
CHORUS: What, no blacks? And why so many WASPS?
underemployment
By age, they ranged in DOB from 1921 to 1948
CHORUS: please tell us more more more ... it's almost 1984 !
ok, the mean age was 1937 + or minus one standard deviation of 7 years?
CHORUS: more about the mean guys and that youthful deviate, please....
VOICE FROM THE PIT: don't you mean useful pc defoleyate?
17 of them dated from the second world war (1940-1945 fyi) !! ..
VOICE FROM THE PIT: and when did they stop dating??
CHORUS (I rate): we need more dope!
O K O K O K : here's the hysterextricate histogram:
CHORUS:
Awgh let us click
HICkUP hic
for the birthdate
to magnificate!!
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translation:
click on the
dumb thumnail, man,
to make it larger . . .
OUCH!
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66 of the 67 applicants earned Ph.D. degrees, the earliest earned in 1947, the last in 1978
CHORUS:good show! more details, please
the average year of PhD award was 1967 with a standard deviation of 7 years (1967 +/- 7)
CHORUS: more??!
most of the Ph D degrees (9) were granted in 1969
CHORUS:What about the historygraph or whatsoever you call it?!
voici the histogram, that is, the graph showing the classes of year of Ph.D. award:
CHORUS:
Awgh let us click
HICkUP hic
for the PhD award date
to magnificate!!
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translation:
click on the
dumb thumnail, man,
to make it larger . . .
OUCH!
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Most of the Ph.D.'s were in BIOLOGY (29), topped by ZOOLOGY (9)
CHORUS: Splendid!!! They'll do well in this ZOO, won't they??
The other disciplines represented, in descending order, follow:
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematics
Geology
Other
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10
9
8
4
6
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CHORUS: We are bored oh so bored
do something more exciting!
The applicants' Ph.D.'s were awarded from 39 U.S. and 4 foreign institutions.
CHORUS: like, from where, man?
Here we go, man:
Number of
degrees each: | Name of US
institution: |
| 4 | Cornell and PSU | | 3 | Brown, Iowa, Oklahoma and Tulane | | 2 |
Cincinnati, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minneapolis,
Notre Dame, Texas, VPI, SUNY and Syracuse | | 1 |
28 other universities, including Harvard and Yale |
CHORUS: Enough already!
So what about the EXPERIENCE of these dudes?
just a minute, that requires a rather complex matrix:
EXPERIENCE
|
number of
responses
|
minimum
|
maximum
|
mean
(average)
|
standard
deviation
|
Remarks
|
|
teaching
|
years as
full prof.
|
61
|
0
|
20
|
5.7
|
6.7
|
25 x 0 years
|
|
...
|
number of
institutions
|
55
|
1
|
14
|
3.8
|
7.0
|
13 x 1 institution
|
|
research
|
total number of
publications
|
60
|
1
|
94
|
23
|
21
|
...
|
|
...
|
number published
in the 1980's
|
46
|
0
|
14
|
3.4
|
3.7
|
9 x 0 publications
|
|
...
|
number of
grants
|
18
|
-
|
19
|
7.2
|
4.5
|
4 x "yes"
2 x 'many'
|
|
...
|
total $'s
in thousands
|
15
|
-
|
>1,000
|
304
|
317
|
...
|
|
administration
|
years as chair
or equivalent
|
41
|
0
|
14
|
5.1
|
4.2
|
10 x 0 yrs
5 x "yes"
|
|
...
|
year in higher
function(s)
|
41
|
0
|
19
|
2.3
|
4.2
|
22 x 0 yrs
5 x "yes"
|
|
...
|
number of
committees
|
28
|
-
|
40
|
14
|
8
|
11 x "yes"
4 x "many"
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Well, that's the end of the one page summary I found among my papers...
You may well imagine my elation when the majority of the committee voted for promotion of our temporary dean to DEAN ...
A dozen years of altercations followed and is partly summarized in another story.
Its culmination was a recommendation by said dean to recommend to the president not to allow me to be considered as candidate for the position of chair
"because of his (Oostdam's) limited administrative experience" ...
and that while I earned the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's "Excellence in Academic Services" Award in 1975
and served more than seven years as annually (re-)elected President of The Marine Science Consortium.
P.S. My recommendation to have deans evaluated just like students and faculty are, was well-received but somehow disappeared .
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