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Summers has expressed a desire to hire younger scholars, and those whose work bridges conventional departmental divisions...
...tree—there was a little elf hiding there in the stump,” Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 says of the so-called House elves, students and recent graduates who help with open houses, teas and other events. Though most Houses hire such assistants, only Quincy has given them such a distinctive nickname. And no one knows exactly...
...biggest academic miseries facing undergraduates is the prospect of ending up in a section led by a poorly-qualified or 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...
...often cited in the debate over preregistration, extremely accurate class size predictions can often be made months before classes are offered. But even with these predictions, professors will not always know exactly how many TFs to pre-hire. The consequences of early over-hiring TFs, however, are hardly negative—students would gain from smaller sections and more individual attention, benefits that would be worth the expense of employing an extra...
...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...