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...they will have trouble getting into, instead of the classes that would be their top choices. “There are real constraints on how many people can be accommodated, so I can see why people would do that,” says Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz. “I hope they don?...
...least convincing arguments Kirby and his staff offer in favor of preregistration is that it would improve advising because conversations with advisers will take place months before course enrollment. They won’t be as pressured as conversations during the first week of the semester, Wolcowitz says, because advisers currently must have so many conversations with so many students on a tight deadline before study cards are due. Yet it seems that Wolcowitz was confusing cause and effect. Meetings with advisers are hectic during the first week of classes because study cards are due at the end of that...
...Wolcowitz says that these meetings would be spread out over two or three weeks before study cards are due, and therefore advisors would be less busy. Of course, this doesn’t do much for the root causes of problems with advising—departments who still don’t assign an individual adviser to each student and instead rely on walk-in advising “office hours,” advisers who don’t know enough about the relevant courses and advisers who don’t know enough about the student whom they...
...courses they are teaching. This was the main thrust of Kirby’s pitch for preregistration to senior gift volunteers, and it was presented to the Faculty on Tuesday as the main motivation for preregistration. “The primary goal is to improve instruction,” Wolcowitz told the Faculty. But just as a company’s slogan can aim to conceal its greatest weakness, Wolcowitz’s claim that undergraduates are the reason for preregistration rang hollow to many of the faculty in attendance Tuesday...
...teach classes. Sometimes these individuals are graduate students at nearby universities. Sometimes they are otherwise qualified to teach. But it is much harder to hire them at the last minute than it is to hire a Harvard graduate student at the last minute, which is another reason, according to Wolcowitz, that FAS needs preregistration...