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...very conscientious person who is very concerned about the students under his care,” Lowell House Senior Tutor John L. Ellison wrote in an e-mail. “He is responsive and, I believe, has been one of our best tutors over the years...
Most recently, there was the community uproar surrounding last April’s “sufficient independent corroboration” policy recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administrative Board (The Ellison Committee). The Committee drew fire from CASV and many other student groups for the secrecy with which it operated, and the hurried way the report was passed by the faculty. The corroboration rule itself was criticized as a 30-year step backwards. This new rule focused attention yet again on the issue of sexual violence at Harvard, and was an important factor in the creation...
...refashion it until it became unrecognizable—many people now think the appropriate way forward for undergraduate education reform is through piecemeal tinkering rather than sweeping alterations. In that vein, Monday’s announcement by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison that the majority of each class’ teaching fellows (TFs) must be hired a semester in advance has been widely welcomed as a way to improve students’ educational experiences. But, unfortunately, undergraduates should recognize that many of their academic woes are based not on substandard...
...unprepared teaching fellow (TF) hired at the last minute. Simultaneously, eleventh-hour TFs hiring causes a great deal of stress for graduate students seeking employment. Both predicaments will be ameliorated by a new policy—announced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison on Tuesday—that will require faculty to hire their TFs in May for the fall and spring semesters of the following year...
...risks associated with applying for a teaching fellow position by assuring employment for the coming terms. Consequently, those who are hired will have more time to balance teaching with their own academic work and research—conducive to better-run sections. By removing these obstacles, which have made Ellison call “prohibitively difficult” the process for graduate students to become TFs. This policy will likely encourage a larger number of students to apply—giving professors a wider pool of applicants from which to choose the most qualified candidates...