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Since then individual departments have been required to annually submit a plan to Wolcowitz’s office as to their method for hiring and training their teaching fellows from Harvard teaching assistants from other schools (TAs), and undergraduate course assistants (CAs...
However, in the math department all that is required of undergraduate CAs, the most inexperienced of all section leaders, are two seminars—one about the challenges of undergraduates teaching undergraduates and an orientation session by the department...
...Wilkinson said that this is not usually the case and that the center has contact with only about half of TFs, TAs, and CAs each year...
...There is a lot of demand on TFs at Harvard. The expectations are high for both the students and the teachers here,” said Katerina Markovic Stokes, a TA in First Nights from Brandeis University. CAs also admit that the demands placed on their time can be daunting...
...basic approach of the CAS has been to view college drinking as a public health issue. In our society, we are accustomed to viewing most problems in a very individual light. For instance, a person's alcohol abuse is almost automatically viewed entirely as a psychological problem, a personal moral failing or a weakness of character. But serious alcohol problems are influenced by a number of factors, including the environment in which the individual is placed. The CAS takes the issue of problem drinking--which on college campuses most often takes the form of binge drinking--and views...