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...advocating for the protection of education from injurious budget cuts. In California, the protests were especially justified; to make up for a state-wide deficit of over $20 billion, the public universities in California have sought to trim their own budgets by reducing library hours, furloughing staff, cutting teaching assistants??and, most dramatically, increasing tuition by 32 percent...
Part of last spring’s budget plan had called for the hiring of fewer teaching assistants??section leaders who are otherwise unaffiliated with Harvard, as opposed to teaching fellows. Average section sizes were expected to creep upwards, closer to a long-standing target of 18 students, which, according to McCarty, is frequently undershot...
...lower-level House administrators, who spoke to The Crimson on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, say that the areas of House life the Hammonds’ administration has targeted for budget cuts—particularly the possible consolidation of resident deans’ assistants??reflected a deficient knowledge of the House system, which they consider to be “instrumental” to undergraduate life at Harvard...
...This goes against the notion of a House. It would force [the assistants??] loyalties to be divided,” Pertile says. “With no loyalties, it is almost like saying that a machine would be sufficient...
...current budgetary concerns, Selsby said, “There is obviously a savings to us there, but I don’t believe [the change in hours] was a direct repercussion of the current economic situation.” The impact of this change on undergraduate User Assistants??FAS IT’s student employees who staff the help desk and the clinic—remain unclear. Selsby denied that the economic crisis has significantly affected student employees, adding that the eliminated shifts were often left unstaffed after the lottery process used to assign shifts at the beginning...