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Harris said that the current unpredictable nature of class sizes has led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to overspend on books, TFs and TAs, to the tune of over $1 million last year...
...long sought to reduce these inefficiencies. Two years ago, administrators began working with pre-semester estimates to reduce the number of TFs hired at the last minute to accommodate larger-than-expected classes. According to Harris, TFs who are hired after the semester has begun are often among the lowest rated in the Q Guide...
...biggest problem is we end up hiring a large percentage of our TFs after the course has begun,” said Harris. “That just wastes money and makes for bad pedagogy...
While the class was eventually able to hire additional TFs, Phillips said it would have been useful to have more information about how many students planned on enrolling from the beginning...
...know, the size of a class is unknown until study cards are filed, so there’s a delicate balance to be struck between signing up sufficient staff of TFs and making sure you don’t waste money by having too many,” he wrote. “He seemed to understand all sides of this and made good choices about how many TFs to commit...