Word: tfs
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...road to success last month, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that teaching fellows at private universities are eligible to organize (teaching fellows at public universities, covered by state rather than federal law, have been in recognized unions for over 30 years). With this decision, Harvard TFs are now legally able to form a union. If they consider this option, the Harvard community should reflect on the shameful response to the graduate student union movement at Yale to avoid replicating the sorry experiences of our colleagues in Connecticut...
...third of all GSAS students currently work as teaching fellows (TFs), and as housing prices rise, they often feel financial pressure to overextend themselves...
...thing if you live in the Quad and never make it home. But it still doesn't explain why you can't remember to turn the phone off--even if your significant other needs his or her regular check-ins. And for those TFs who've let their phones ring in section, it doesn't make you seem cool or important, just incompetent. So please: save our sanity and your Geiger counts--cancer's no fun. Just switch off before you enter our hallowed halls of learning. And it wouldn't hurt to do the same in dining halls...
Course syllabi already list TFs for students who visit a class on the first day, but it is unlikely that a student will be able to visit every course he or she considers taking. So list TFs before the first day of class. Put the information up on the Web as it becomes available. Correct it as necessary. Print the names of TFs along with the corrections and new information in the course supplement. People who enable group learning among Harvard's students should be recognized, whether they are the professors or their teaching fellows...
Right now, the course listings are erroneous. At best, they omit TF involvement. At worst, they list professors where there are only TFs. When the book that lists our courses cannot be considered a sound body of knowledge, what are we to make of the courses that it contains...