Word: teach
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Despite the presence of GPSA, T.A.'s at Penn are unlikely to unionize in the near future, Glasker says. The administration at Penn is very anti-union and the large number of people who want to teach would make it "very difficult" to form an effective union because "scabs" would fill any position left vacant in a strike, Glasker says...
While graduate students at many schools teach to pay their tuition, students at Harvard and Dartmouth teach to fulfill degree requirements, receiving tuition breaks from outside funds...
...have a rather unique situation here at Harvard," says John B. Fox, administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Tuition breaks for the 2400 graduate students do not depend on how much teaching they do. Instead, individual departments require some 1000 graduate students to teach a certain number of "fifths," one section per semester, to fulfill degree requirements...
...Their basic level of co-ordination is different. The kids who went through Citystep as fifth graders pick up steps quicker. They're used to thinking in counts. They are used to thinking in terms of right or left or up and down," Roth says. "I can teach a step in half the time that people in school programs do," she adds...
...directors say that Friday night's disappointment helped them to teach the cast the important lesson that everyone needs to improve...