"I'm afraid that doesn't help us now. Besides, it would have to be in a field pertinent to your application to have much weight."
"George—"
"Doesn't help you at all for the present. You would require a minimum of two in the physics department alone. These two would have to be of absolutely top quality with a prolific publication record. That would bring this factor to a bare minimum."
"You take the number of Ph. D.'s and multiply them by the number of papers published and the years of experience and divide by the number of students enrolled. Is that the idea?"
"Roughly," said Baker. "We have certain constants which we also inject. In addition, we give weight to other factors such as patents applied for and granted. Periods of consultation by private industry, and so on. Each of these factors is plotted separately, then combined into the overall Index."
Baker turned the pages slowly, showing Fenwick a bleak record of black boundary lines cutting through nearly virginal territory on the charts. Clearwater's evaluation was reflected in a small spot of color near the bottom edge.
Fenwick stared at the record without expression for a long time. "What else do you chart?" he said finally.
"The next thing we evaluate is the performance of students graduated during the past twenty-five years."
"Clearwater is only ten years old," said Fenwick.