Master 215: University Profile
So I've been at UCR for three years now. And throughout these three years, I've occasionally gotten questions from people about the place where I am studying. People find out that I'm enrolled at UCR and they ask simple questions like, "So how big is UCR?" or, "How many students attend UCR?" and I find, every time, that I have no clue whatsoever. Lately I've been saying, "I get asked that question so much that I ought to know, but I don't." So now I've finally done something about the situation and looked up the information. There's no guarantee that I'll remember it, but if anyone asks me, I can tell them, "Look at my blog site. The information is there."
In order to give some sense of comparison, I've also included information about APU (where I got my bachelor's degree) and UCLA (which is a large, well-known school in the area). Of course these statistics are not exhaustive, but they give some small impression of the character of the school that I currently attend.
(People reading this on facebook may not be able to see the chart and should visit the blogspot site.)
A few comments:
(1) Of course, all this data should be read with a grain of salt. Don't go drawing far-reaching or decisive conclusions about these places just based on this small sampling of the total data.
(2) So UCR is a big place. Not as big as UCLA, but how many places can be as big as UCLA? I don't actually know whether that works as a rhetorical question. Anyhow, UCR is big.
(3) UCR, as I understand it, takes some measure of pride in the broad ethnic diversity of its student body.
(4) For being such a (comparatively) small school, APU has a fair number of international students.
(5) I'm not quite sure what to make of the claim that UCR covers 1200 acres. Maybe most of that is still orange groves or agricultural fields.
(6) APU may have the smallest number of library holdings, but their theological holdings definitely outstrip UCR's by a wide margin. It was great when the libraries were connected by LINK+ and I could order books from APU. Now I'm stuck with the Melvyl (intra-UC) network. But between the 10 campuses, I can usually get what I need.
(7) Hooray for APU for 12-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio! I'm still not quite sure how students elsewhere manage with lectures of 400+ students.
(8) One piece of information I didn't list in the chart: I checked the three websites today and APU lists 5 philosophy faculty, UCR lists 18, and UCLA lists 17. Keep in mind, of course, that APU is a liberal arts school and not a research institution.
(9) I've heard rumors that UCR did well, compared to UCLA on the National Research Council's Rankings of Graduate Programs for 2005-2006. That report was released at the end of September. It's controversial and I don't know much about it anyway, and am in no position to start drawing comparisons between UCR's and UCLA's philosophy departments anyway. Why even bring it up! That's not the point of this post anyway.
This is just to give those who are interested the tiniest glimpse into the place where I currently am studying philosophy. I love it here. It's wonderful. And hopefully, in a couple years, I'll be taking a degree and moving to my first job.
--
God is in this place,
And that reality, seen and understood by the grace of God in Christ Jesus through the work of the Holy Spirit, makes all the difference in the world.
In order to give some sense of comparison, I've also included information about APU (where I got my bachelor's degree) and UCLA (which is a large, well-known school in the area). Of course these statistics are not exhaustive, but they give some small impression of the character of the school that I currently attend.
(People reading this on facebook may not be able to see the chart and should visit the blogspot site.)
A few comments:
(1) Of course, all this data should be read with a grain of salt. Don't go drawing far-reaching or decisive conclusions about these places just based on this small sampling of the total data.
(2) So UCR is a big place. Not as big as UCLA, but how many places can be as big as UCLA? I don't actually know whether that works as a rhetorical question. Anyhow, UCR is big.
(3) UCR, as I understand it, takes some measure of pride in the broad ethnic diversity of its student body.
(4) For being such a (comparatively) small school, APU has a fair number of international students.
(5) I'm not quite sure what to make of the claim that UCR covers 1200 acres. Maybe most of that is still orange groves or agricultural fields.
(6) APU may have the smallest number of library holdings, but their theological holdings definitely outstrip UCR's by a wide margin. It was great when the libraries were connected by LINK+ and I could order books from APU. Now I'm stuck with the Melvyl (intra-UC) network. But between the 10 campuses, I can usually get what I need.
(7) Hooray for APU for 12-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio! I'm still not quite sure how students elsewhere manage with lectures of 400+ students.
(8) One piece of information I didn't list in the chart: I checked the three websites today and APU lists 5 philosophy faculty, UCR lists 18, and UCLA lists 17. Keep in mind, of course, that APU is a liberal arts school and not a research institution.
(9) I've heard rumors that UCR did well, compared to UCLA on the National Research Council's Rankings of Graduate Programs for 2005-2006. That report was released at the end of September. It's controversial and I don't know much about it anyway, and am in no position to start drawing comparisons between UCR's and UCLA's philosophy departments anyway. Why even bring it up! That's not the point of this post anyway.
This is just to give those who are interested the tiniest glimpse into the place where I currently am studying philosophy. I love it here. It's wonderful. And hopefully, in a couple years, I'll be taking a degree and moving to my first job.
--
God is in this place,
And that reality, seen and understood by the grace of God in Christ Jesus through the work of the Holy Spirit, makes all the difference in the world.
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