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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleges, including Williams, scholarly demands on professors are high. However, Williams profs endeavor to maximize their teaching potential. It is guaranteed that your prof will teach your class; TAs never teach and graduate students (of which there are few) only take classes. Profs are enthusiastic about meeting with students--during office hours as well as other times. It is common to see students and profs in the Snack Bar or in Cold Springs Coffee Roasters, a comfortable cafe on Spring Street. Some professors actually hold office hours in Cold Springs. Be careful, though: if you're really well liked...

Author: By Christine E. Fletcher, FEATURES EDITOR OF THE WILLIAMS RECORD | Title: Beautiful Boonies | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...colleges, including Williams, scholarly demands on professors are high. However, Williams profs endeavor to maximize their teaching potential. It is guaranteed that your prof will teach your class; TAs never teach and graduate students (of which there are few) only take classes. Profs are enthusiastic about meeting with students - during office hours as well as other times. It is common to see students and profs in the Snack Bar or in Cold Springs Coffee Roasters, a comfortable caf on Spring Street. Some professors actually hold office hours in Cold Springs. Be careful, though: if you're really well liked...

Author: By Christine E. Fletcher, FEATURES EDITOR OF THE WILLIAMS RECORD | Title: Beautiful Boonies: Williams College | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

With higher-education institutions relying more on teaching assistants (TAs) and part-time faculty as opposed to full-time faculty to teach undergraduates, graduate students, who serve as these TAs, are fighting to gain rights equal to the work they perform...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...TAs of the World, Unite...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

While the students at UCLA have not received benefits like those at Ann Arbor or Wisconsin, they recently won a major legal battle when UCLA TAs and other graduate teachers voted to be represented by an affiliate...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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