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Watson has reached the six-year limit of his appointment as a teaching assistant, a position for instructors who are not current graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...unable to teach Social Studies because of his new departmental teaching requirements. Watson, who is in his sixth year TF’ing Ec 10, the most popular class at the College, is no longer able to teach because of the College’s six-year teaching limit for non-tenured professors. His resignation will deprive next year’s new Ec 10 professor of a seasoned veteran of the course, and Lowell will lose one of its most active resident tutors. While we realize that these two cases are different, allowing both of these exceptional teachers...
...this end, we suggest a policy by which committed TFs can apply to teach for an extra two years at a time beyond their six-year limit. There should be an application process that takes into account consistently high Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide ratings, as well as the recommendations of the faculty teaching the courses in which these outstanding TFs work. As long as the threshold of achievement in teaching is high enough, TFs who are not both devoted to their students and exceptionally gifted at teaching will be unable to stay past the limit. We don?...
...Poor babies. What's wrong with $100 DVD players and $20 designer shirts? Nothing. But you still need a paycheck to buy them. Critics say that China's low labor costs hit employment elsewhere. Politicians in the U.S. and Europe are threatening to limit Chinese imports if Beijing doesn't increase the value of the yuan and hence the price of its exports. The U.S. last week restricted annual growth of certain Chinese imports, such as cotton trousers, to as little...
...British workers on average put in 217 hours per year more than the Germans, 220 more than the French and 319 more than the Dutch, but their heavy workload may be about to lighten. Last week the European Parliament voted to scrap a British exemption to E.U. rules that limit the workweek to 48 hours. Employers complained that such restrictions could undermine the British economy's strength. "Here we are with the most successful economy in Europe, we've got the most flexible labor market, people earn good money - and Brussels is trying to do away with it," griped Digby...