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...move to improve section instruction in the College and the lives of graduate students, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Peter T. Ellison announced yesterday that professors will be required to hire the majority of their Teaching Fellows (TFs) as much as eight months ahead of time...
...Ellison explained that the plan, which he announced at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, was necessary to increase graduate student job security, saying currently it was “prohibitively difficult” for graduate students to balance studying, research and teaching...
...Ellison announced that beginning this May, professors must submit the names of Harvard graduate students they are committed to hiring as TFs for their courses during the following academic year. According to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Jeffrey Wolcowitz, his office will make sure professors’ plans seem “reasonable” before making the offers official...
...Ellison said that these procedures represent a stronger commitment to current TF hiring policies already in existence...
...yesterday’s meeting, however, Ellison said that the requirement to make these commitments “irrevocable” is new. He said he and Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 would convey the plan in its entirety to the Faculty in a letter some time this month...