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...don’t face shortages as much as we face problems getting our graduate students into appropriate TF positions, and they often don’t know until the last minute,” says William Mills Todd III, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature...
...period” just like they use the current shopping period, it is unlikely that preregistration estimates will be any more accurate—making preregistration powerless to ameliorate the “week from hell.” But even if estimates are improved, Harvard’s TF hiring practices will remain anachronistically disorganized...
There are several worthwhile reforms that Harvard could institute to improve the process. First, and most important, departments ought to make use of TF hiring coordinators to better estimate enrollment numbers—by surveying student interest, as some departments do for tutorials, and better employing the vast amount of enrollment data available. Currently only a handful of departments employ such coordinators—and the coordinators are often underutilized in the ones that do. As a result, only the Core Office—which employs centralized planning—guarantees TF teaching jobs far in advance. Departments ought...
Second, the entire University ought to streamline, standardize and computerize the TF hiring process. Centralizing the job search will allow professors and TFs to find one another much more easily. Standardizing the process would better enable TFs to apply “conditionally” for multiple positions at the same time—allowing them to rank preferences and get the best teaching job they...
When courses do get lotteried, and students do get turned away, it is almost always an issue of classroom space. But the system of classroom allocation is even more antiquated then TF hiring. Currently, the registrar’s office only controls about 37 percent of the classrooms on campus. The rest are embedded in individual departments. There is no centralized—or computerized—way for course heads to reserve space, and relocation procedures require multiple forms and much patience. No course on campus should ever have to be lotteried due to space concerns, but the Office...