Word: tfs
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...course—Thug Motivation 102—really hasn’t changed that much. It’s just slightly more advanced: the guest speakers are a bit more famous (Timbaland, R. Kelly, and Keyshia Cole) and Jeezy has recruited friendlier, more knowledgeable TFs (the production has jumped up a notch). Yet Jeezy may have already taught us all he knows...
...Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education’s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty’s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...
...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol mentioned when she introduced the CGE’s legislation, the Faculty reached a near consensus last May in support of a comprehensive reform that would have required evaluations for all professors and all TFs. At that meeting, however, a few professors derailed the legislation’s momentum in a quasi-filibuster that caused the bill to be indefinitely tabled...
...CGE’s concern for these TFs is understandable, and their legislation rightfully appeals to their constituents. Yet even the bill’s foremost proponent, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol, who chairs the CGE and the recently formed Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, maintains that “It is not fair to the vast majority of good, conscientious teachers to have a small number of professors opt out of the CUE Guide.” She added, “Personally—speaking as a professor?...
Rumblings around campus suggest that a faculty member will offer to amend the legislation. If no one does, however, we hope that the Faculty will reject the current legislation. Holding TFs hostage is an unfortunate cost to pay, but one well worth paying if it leads to a system where all professors’ teaching abilities are evaluated by students...