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...Education (CUE).The Faculty Council and a curricular review committee have both supported mandating course evaluations, noting that they serve as crucial report cards for both professors and teaching fellows. According to Gross, about 60 professors opted out of the CUE Guide process last semester, leaving more than 230 TFs without evaluations.But at the beginning of full Faculty discussion on the issue, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard called for the motion to be tabled, saying it would “undermine a strong tradition of faculty self-governance in the area of teaching.”Kenan Professor...
...diversity of our personal interests and our shared inability to shake addictions to mood elevating prescription drugs. But in doing this, we myopically ignore the most beleaguered and varied population on our campus—Teaching Fellows. Or, as I like to call them, “TFs.”TFs come in many different forms, but they all have the same job: teaching a crap-load of thankless material to a room full of phenomenally annoying 18-year-olds.Some have come to terms with this fact and are extremely jolly in consequence. Others need to jealously blog about how much...
...sophomore tutorial. Few were paying attention during the unceremonious finale, and even fewer will miss the course that has left captive students begging for mercy—or a bit if intellectual stimulation—all semester long. Attendance often dropped to laughable levels as some TFs resigned themselves to making wink-wink agreements, telling their students that they did not need to attend the lectures, while others encouraged “multitasking.” With this semester finally in the rearview mirror, it’s time for the government department to go back to the drawing board...
...political theory. But while Gov 97a has a coherent structure and is organized around the unified theme of democracy in America, Gov 97b meanders aimlessly, often only paying lip service to its promise of introducing students to international relations and comparative government. It has generally been up to the TFs to piece the fragments of the course together—with some stepping up to the plate and others simply allowing their sections to fall into disrepair. This year’s misery was compounded by the decision to institute mandatory weekly lectures in a course that previously only required...
...things are more impressive than English department superstars taking to the stage as characters from Shakespeare—whilst reading their unlearned lines directly off a sheet of paper. “Love and Cruelty” was both the theme and title of the show, which meant that TFs and professors had to interact in a rather uncomfortable and unfamiliar context. A scene from Richard III starring Professor Daniel G. Donoghue as Lady Anne playing opposite his female TF as Richard was made all the more entertaining as the duo stumbled through their poorly memorized lines. One particularly memorable...