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...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...
...prove it with my own observations and the observations of others," Mansfield said. "I saw this in my TFs, and I even felt an impulse in myself to do this...
...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...
...With a voluntary system, it's entirely possible for troubled TFs to go their own way after an unfavorable evaluation, "Buell said. "And if their teaching is in a course where they aren't evaluated, we have no way of tracking their future careers...
Teaching fellows say it is predominantly thefirst-years who are intimidated to speak up inlarge groups. Metz says some TFs are now holdingextra sections on their own time, just forfirst-years