Word: sections
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...section leaders will not hear about job availability until the summer, and some will not know whether they are teaching until the end of shopping period...
...Departments hire most section leaders in July and August, based on estimations of class enrollments determined cooperatively by the University and individual departments, allowing section leaders time to prepare for the courses and communicate with course professors...
...past, administrators did not enforce the section enrollment target. As a result, departments hired more section leaders, rather than redistributing them to classes where enrollment was higher...
...McCarty said he hopes with additional oversight from University Hall, departments will reallocate section leaders more efficiently...
...don’t think that many students will notice the change in section size,” McCarty said, who said he foresaw only a small increase in the average enrollment. “It is really about bringing our section sizes in line with our policy goals...