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Graduate school students are in for some major changes too. Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Peter T. Ellison talked about how GSAS could better compete for the best students...
...Ellison said that the long-accepted maxim that “Those who can’t yet do, teach,” is “not a good thing for our classrooms [and] not a good thing for our students...
Dean of GSAS Peter T. Ellison agrees that increased aid would mean fewer teaching fellows...
...consequences is that teaching fellows will become a scarce resource, and faculty will be required to rethink how we teach,” Ellison said...
...Ellison pointed out that the effect may dovetail with one of Summers’ other priorities—increasing the size of the faculty. With more teachers and smaller classes, there would not be the same need for graduate students to teach...