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...biggest academic miseries facing undergraduates is the prospect of ending up in a section led by a poorly-qualified or unprepared teaching fellow (TF) hired at the last minute. Simultaneously, eleventh-hour TFs hiring causes a great deal of stress for graduate students seeking employment. Both predicaments will be ameliorated by a new policy—announced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison on Tuesday—that will require faculty to hire their TFs in May for the fall and spring semesters of the following year...
...move to improve section instruction in the College and the lives of graduate students, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Peter T. Ellison announced yesterday that professors will be required to hire the majority of their Teaching Fellows (TFs) as much as eight months ahead of time...
Ellison announced that beginning this May, professors must submit the names of Harvard graduate students they are committed to hiring as TFs for their courses during the following academic year. According to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Jeffrey Wolcowitz, his office will make sure professors’ plans seem “reasonable” before making the offers official...
Ryan said that if left to Faculty predictions alone, it is likely that Faculty members would overestimate the number of TFs they will need...
...despite Ellison’s plea for better treatment of graduate students, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier ’68 said in an interview yesterday that hiring TFs so far in advance seemed unfair to those graduate students who are not ready to commit to teaching a semester in advance...