Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty council took up the proposal of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to require teaching fellows (TFs) to attend lecture, but became entangled in the issue and postponed their vote, council members said on Wednesday...
...making it mandatory that teaching fellows attend lecture in the course in which they are teaching," council member and Professor of Physics Gary A. Feldman said Wednesday. "But there is some controversy among whether it should be an absolute rule or whether an instructor should be allowed to exempt [TFs] from the rule...
McKay Professor of Computer Science Barbara J. Grosz said "a hard-and-fast rule is impractical," but supported instructors' requiring their TFs to come to lecture on days when new material is being introduced...
...agree that granting TFs permission to skip out on lecture should not be available as a possible concession for professors to make in order to secure the best TFs available. We hope the Faculty Council approves the proposal to make attendance at lecture mandatory for TFs...
...staff assumes that it is easy for professors to get the best TFs available. Professors work long and hard to recruit and maintain a stable of hardworking TFs who teach classes year in, year out. If a particular TF has a conflict with the time a class meets one year, they should not be kicked out if they can watch the classes on tape. It is in the interests of the class's students to have that TF available to them...