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...especially those who teach large Core courses, say they believe preregistration would help them gauge their class enrollments more accurately. Knowing an approximate enrollment the semester before a class is offered, they say, would allow them to plan Their classes more effectively and predict the number of teaching fellows (TFs) they will need...
Professors say they support preregistrationprimarily so they can hire TFs and tell themwhether they have jobs before the semester begins...
...professors say, especially in large Coreclasses, the numbers are so volatile that theyoften must either scramble to find additional TFsor, conversely, tell TFs that they do not haveposition for them. Even if preregistration wouldnot give them exact numbers, they feel it would atleast give them a better idea of what to expect...
...staffing worked our well in the end,Williams says. He and other TFs took additionalsections, and since, as a tutor in Kirkland House,he had heard students discussing the class, he hadbegun to look for more TFs in late January...
Associate Professor of History EllenFitzpatrick, a Council member, points out that thelast-minute scramble for TFs can sometimes leaveclasses with less qualified section leaders...