Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) considered a proposal that would require teaching fellows to attend the lectures for the courses they teach. This proposal, along with another proposal allowing instructors to excuse TFs from lectures under certain circumstances, will be voted on by the Faculty Council...
...instance, I know Professor [Martin S.] Feldstein ['61] changes his lectures," Fine said. "TFs need to hear the changes...
Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said that even if the lecture has not changed, TFs should attend lectures...
...options were discussed at the meeting and both will be placed before the Faculty Council: a rigid rule requiring TFs to attend lectures and an accompanying proposal which would allow instructors to excuse TFs from lectures only under certain circumstances...
Arguments against the rigid rule focused on two reasons TFs miss lectures: class conflicts and enough familiarity with the material that hearing a lecture may be a waste of time...