That, he added, "signals a much more fundamental commitment to quality" by making it clear that St . Johns is searching for the kind of faculty talent needed to build first-rate programs and promote research.
Educating Ph.D.s, for example, is expensive, and unless the doctoral students are simply being exploited to teach undergraduate students instead of using full-time faculty members, then there is very little value added to having second-rate programs sustained.
Not even a first-rate program like "Friday Night Lights," which the first-rate critic Daniel Mendelsohn extolled as "the finest representation of middle-class marriage in popular culture," was able to do that.
The seldom performed signature work was the high point of the first-rate program that opened the company's four-day 25th-anniversary season at the hall at City College, West 134th Street and Convent Avenue, Hamilton Heights.
GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new business district at the outer edge of this city, has no resident company and a second-rate program.
The programs are first rate: Mahler and Schubert symphonies (Fourth and Ninth) tonight at 8; Harbison and Schoenberg (the Piano Concerto with Peter Serkin) tomorrow night at 8, and Ives, Ligeti, Beethoven and Brahms on Sunday at 2. Carnegie Hall, (212) 212-7800.
Special education and gifted programs are first rate at public schools while often intermittent or nonexistent at privatized schools.
"The programming is first rate," she added of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Around the world, especially in areas without first-rate healthcare programs, uncorrected vision is a major cause of lost productivity.
Her ratings have been solid on the show -- on Tuesday, for instance, she had the third-highest rated program on HLN, and placed second for the network overall but a source told Deadline that "It just felt it was time for everyone" to move on.
"We were trying to compete with programs like Collegiate or Spence, and academically we were first rate, but financially we were third rate".
