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Continuing what has now become an annual flight of junior Faculty members, three assistant professors in the English Department--including gender studies expert Ann Pellegrini '86--have announced their intention to leave Harvard at the end of this academic year...
...appetite always exceeded what my stomach could hold," Pellegrini says. Today, speaking as a Faculty member, she is no longer so quick to endorse it. "Now that I am on the other side of the desk, I find shopping period frustrating. It means a whole week of lectures...that you're having to do a stutter start. You really can't get into the meat of the semester until the study cards are in," Pellegrini explains...
Thirteen years ago, Acting Director of Women's Studies Ann Pellegrini `86 shopped 'til she dropped...
...Before coming to Harvard, Pellegrini taught at Barnard College and Columbia University; both schools shifted from shopping to pre-registration systems while she was there. Today, she welcomes shopping period reform. "With pre-registration, you don't have to end up taking the course you signed up for in advance," she adds. "There isn't a lot of change number-wise. The names may change, but the number of bodies stays about constant." Pellegrini suggests that pre-registration "would appeal to a great many Faculty." She acknowledges were she a student, she might not be as enthusiastic about dropping shopping...
...Pellegrini said the confusion of the millennial moment makes this both a frightening and exciting time...