Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professors echo graduate students' complaints, saying that shopping period wastes a week of class time and often forces them to hire unqualified Teaching Fellows (TFs) when enrollment exceeds expectations...
First, uncertainty in enrollment means that undergraduates can end up being taught by ill-prepared TFs added to the teaching staff at the last minute...
Todd says that having last-minute TFs is especially problematic in the Core courses, the classes whose enrollment is most unpredictable...
...order to ensure that TFs are sufficiently knowledgeable about the often specialized Core courses, many professors spend a great deal of time preparing their TFs and last-minute additions to the teaching staff are often less prepared...
...avoid a surplus of instructors, the Core Office gives professors enough funds to hire TFs for only two-thirds of the expected enrollment...