Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked people to select professors and TFs who have inspired them in some ways, who have made learning worthwhile...who have made them go to class," said the council's academics committee Co-Chair Sean M. Becker...
...Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell has put his support behind a plan that would make evaluation of "troubled" teaching fellows (as identified by the CUE questionnaires) mandatory (March 11 Crimson). I think evaluation of "troubled" (whatever that means) TFs should be mandatory. But a more forceful and sweeping use of the present CUE system is not the way to accomplish this...
...assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in the end, be diluted by the general apathy and lack of inspiration in the average CUE response. A few particularly lame TFs would go to the woodshed on the third floor of the Science Center and the status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while not creating any more work for his tenured colleagues in terms of their actually doing some of the evaluation of TFs...
...blame them for that? I freely admit (for the second time now) that I am part of this trend to inflate grades. And I reiterate that nothing will change this except increased direct involvement of tenured faculty in the related processes of grading students and evaluating TFs...
...core of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were not 24-year-old TFs but professors in their 50s or 60s, and their ideas were not that radical," said Robinson, the New York banker. "They were a lot more like Nathan Pusey than they would like to believe...