Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty Council took another step toward making Teaching Fellows (TFs) attendance in lecture mandatory yesterday, voting 16-2 for such a proposal to be introduced at the October faculty meeting...
...movement to make lecture attendance mandatory began last year in the Committee for Undergraduate Education, which is made up of both students and faculty. Many student members of the committee lobbied hard for the proposal, telling stories of TFs who asked students what had been covered in lecture or who taught at the wrong pace...
Last spring the council discussed a proposal which "required" TFs to attend lectures. Yesterday, after some 45 minutes of discussing and debating word choice, the Council decided to write a proposal "expecting" TFs to attend lecture...
Shopping period used to sound like a good idea. However, things have definately gone too far. Consider a large Economics course that met in Sever Hall last week. Students arrived up to a half hour early to get seats, which were filled almost immediately. TFs had handed out all of the syllabi shortly thereafter, and heard sectioning complaints and gripes that all the books were back-ordered until the professor arrived and decided to move the class to nearby Emerson Hall...
...would be lotteried out of a class they want to take. Bigger rooms could be secured in plenty of time, and extra TFs could be hired...