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Unpredictable changes in class enrollment this year have confounded the process of assigning section leaders for the fall semester, drawing out professors’ concerns about larger section sizes...
Facing a projected budgetary deficit of $220 million last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had planned this spring to cut 8 to 10 percent of the College’s section leaders for the fall semester, which was projected to save around $2 million, according Logan S. McCarty, assistant dean of Harvard College. But because of changes in enrollment, it remains unclear four weeks into the semester how much money will actually be saved or how section sizes will change...
Part of last spring’s budget plan had called for the hiring of fewer teaching assistants—section leaders who are otherwise unaffiliated with Harvard, as opposed to teaching fellows. Average section sizes were expected to creep upwards, closer to a long-standing target of 18 students, which, according to McCarty, is frequently undershot...
McCarty said final numbers regarding TF and TA hirings and section sizes will not be available until late October, when class registration closes and departments have submitted their final requests...
...time being, Cohen said, she is hoping that section sizes will not see a larger-than-desired increase...