The November 1983 issue of Changing Times carried a listing, based on a five-volume study published by the National Academy of Sciences, of the most highly regarded doctoral programs in 32 academic disciplines. The Academy study, An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, reviewed 2,700 Ph.D. programs in disciplines from anthropology to zoology. In the ratings reported by Changing Times, two key measures of reputation from the study were combined: the first, Faculty Quality, assessed how professors around the country rated their peers in the same discipline; the second, Program Quality, assessed how well they thought each program educated research scholars and scientists. From these two measures Changing Times derived a ranking of the top 10% of programs in each discipline. The Academy's 1981 assessment of the quality of 70 doctoral programs in anthropology (Jones and Coggeshall 1982) was based on 16 measures, 12 of which were deemed objective. The remaining 4 subjective measures were based on a reputational survey of faculty members conducted in April 1981 in which 210 anthropologists were asked to participate. Sixty percent did so, the majority of them cultural anthropologists (56%). Twenty-eight archaeologists (22%), 17 physical anthropologists (14%), and 10 individuals who listed themselves in the category (8%) also responded. Two-thirds of respondents had earned their highest degrees prior to 1970, and a majority held the rank of full professor (Jones and Coggeshall 1982:34). A brief synopsis of the Academy's findings in the March 1983 Anthropology Newsletter presented, among other data, the rank order of anthropology graduate programs according to the Academy's assessments of Faculty Quality and Program Improvement and observed (p. 1):