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...ONCE HEARD a Harvard graduate student describe his routine for grading papers and exams at the end of the term. At the time, he was a section-leader for three social science courses, responsible for a total of about 45 students--not an unusual workload for a teaching assistant. Each of the three classes required a long term paper and a final exam, and so, at the end of the term, the graduate student had roughly a thousand pages to read and evaluate...
...Getting off the ground so late didn't help because we had to use this weekend when everyone is stating to sorry about their workload, and we were competing with mother nature," Colantuono said...
Everything in the economy seems to be going up these days -- inflation, unemployment, interest rates. So, in fact, has the workload at the Business School, which has increased by 82 percent in the past two decades. But while the school's administrators may not be able to cope with the problems facing the economy as a whole, they are more confident that they can solve their own problems. The school last month began a substantial overhaul of the curriculum reducing the burden on first and second-year students...
Larry Lesburg, director of the Harvard-affiliated Legal Aid Bureau, where Shelton worked part-time, suggested that the student's tremendous workload, in addition to his many extra-curricular activities, may have also upset...
...desireable from an educational or equity standpoint to have large workload disparities between courses, Roy G. Gordon, chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday, adding that it is necessary to monitor how courses...