American Philosophical Society Elects New Members (news item)

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Sorry Phanta, I don’t see that any of my numbers or facts have been incorrect. All of these counts come directly from the APS website. All universities count emeritus professors as faculty members as long as they are still alive. This includes Stanford. However, to please you, here are the same counts, omitting the emeritus professors. The result of this is that Princeton moves a little closer to Harvard in absolute numbers, there is a grouping in the twenties of four schools (Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU), Yale and the University of Chicago are tied farther back and Penn drops down to 11. </p>

<p>American Philosophical Society Members
(Leading National Institutions–living members only–omitting emeritus professors)</p>

<p>66—Harvard</p>

<p>40—Princeton</p>

<p>27—Stanford
25—Berkeley
22—Columbia
20—NYU</p>

<p>16—U. of Chicago, Yale
11—Penn</p>

<p>I believe you’ll find that the figure you quoted and that is reported by Stanford includes all the emeritus professors. If you would like to parse these numbers in a different way, please feel free. I may have made some minor errors in addition but I believe these are correct.</p>