This, of course, requires shifting still more teaching to graduate students and other adjunct, non-tenured faculty.

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More of the remaining teaching will be done, Harvard-style, by graduate students.

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Total FTE (full-time equivalent) undergraduate students divided by total FTE instructional staff not teaching in graduate or professional programs.

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Last year, while teaching a graduate level artificial intelligence class at Stanford University, Thrun lamented that his course could only reach 200 students in the suburbs of Palo Alto.

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In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.

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