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...long been my (not entirely popular) theory that grade inflation and student discontent with the quality of sections taught by graduate teaching fellows are related phenomena. As I have already stated in print, Harvard's tenured faculty have allowed a situation to develop in which the CUE system has become a kind of electronic overseer of what once was, presumably, a proud system of rigorous academic evaluation by highly qualified professionals. Now teaching fellows grade students who, in turn, grade them. In too many cases, no professor ever interrupts the flow of this mutually destructive cycle, the result of which...
...Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell has put his support behind a plan that would make evaluation of "troubled" teaching fellows (as identified by the CUE questionnaires) mandatory (March 11 Crimson). I think evaluation of "troubled" (whatever that means) TFs should be mandatory. But a more forceful and sweeping use of the present CUE system is not the way to accomplish this...
...CUE evaluations are not mandatory and it is difficult to see how they ever could be. It may be possible to compel a student to fill out a questionnaire, but it is extremely difficult to insure that he or she does so intelligently, thoughtfully and fairly. One need only drop the veil of the abstract and look at the real results of the present CUE system to see this. I taught 40 students last semester in two sections of Lit and Arts A-66 and received 20 CUE evaluations. Of those 20, two were blank on the rating side...
...really mixed," he says. "There are some that have low CUE ratings...
...approximately 30 teaching fellows who rank below a 2.8 on the CUE scale, the majority are American born, he says, and foreign born graduate students are not on that list disproportionately to their numbers in the ranks of teaching fellows...