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...term, the preliminary report of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review suggests creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system of preregistration??€”an unpopular ogre of a policy that we fiercely oppose—might improve the general quality of TFs. None of these policies or proposals is a real solution to uneven TF teaching...
...that does not apply to every particular situation. In the vast majority of cases, when Harvard students try to effect change in anything other than student-run organizations, they fail. And to the extent that they do succeed, it is largely—as in the case of preregistration??€”on issues of circumscribed, if not trivial, import...
Though Summers was a strong supporter of course preregistration??€”defending it before undergraduates and telling them it was a done deal at House study breaks—he said its ultimate failure did not reflect on his year...
Unfortunately, this tactic is less than surprising, given Kirby’s behavior in the months since his arrival as Dean of the Faculty. Recently, when pushing his plan for preregistration??€”a plan subsequently withdrawn in the face of widespread opposition from faculty and students—Kirby masked the obvious ill-effects his proposal would have had on student life. Counterintuitively, he maintained that preregistration would improve the undergraduate experience. Even less plausibly, he claimed that it would not substantially harm the College’s prized shopping period. But saying something does not make...
...proposal for preregistration??€”Kirby’s first major policy initiative as dean—will not be presented to the full Faculty for a vote this spring, he said...