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Teaching Campaign Prepares To Deliver Petition
With 1,827 signatures as of Wednesday, the Harvard Teaching Campaign is making a final push for signatures on a petition that calls for a 12-student cap on section sizes before delivering it to administrators.
Grad Students’ Path to Unionization May Depend on Labor Board
Law experts say that Harvard graduate students' success at unionization may depend on whether the National Labor Relations Board reconsiders a 2004 decision.
Newly Elected Graduate Student Leaders Back Unionization
Newly elected members of the Graduate Student Council declared Wednesday night their support for an effort by graduate students to unionize.
Graduate Students Start Movement To Unionize
Graduate students involved in the unionization effort said the movement is still in its early stages but counts members from all three divisions of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Graduate Students Await Columbia Unionization Ruling
A ruling in favor of unionization rights for graduate students at Columbia might prompt interest in a similar movement at Harvard.
Police Respond to ‘Uptick’ in Package Thefts
The Harvard University Police Department has observed an increase in reports of missing items, particularly at graduate apartment-style housing, according to spokesperson Steven G. Catalano.
Voicing Concerns
Graduate Student Council President Summer A. Shafer leads the council's first meeting of the year in Dudley House on Wednesday evening. Many criticized the size of sections, noting that teaching fellows were additionally struggling with logistics after recent snow days.
Graduate Students Discuss Section Uncertainty Following Snowstorm
At a meeting of the Graduate Student Council on Wednesday, students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences lamented an unusually high level of uncertainty in their teaching plans for sections as a result of two consecutive snow days this week.
Teaching Campaign Members Optimistic About Smaller Sections
Members of the Harvard Teaching Campaign are hopeful that last semester’s string of departmental endorsements for smaller section size will result in a new policy this semester.
Scrambling for Stability: The TF Experience at Harvard
Teaching fellows play an important role in educating Harvard undergraduates, but for many, decades-old problems associated with shopping week, unclear expectations, and time commitments still pervade.
Three More Departments Endorse Section Size Cap
Faculty from the departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations have endorsed a 12-student cap on section sizes.
Committee on Study of Religion Endorses Section Cap
The body became the sixth department or committee to extend its support of the Harvard Teaching Campaign, a group of teaching fellows and students calling for smaller sections.
Grad Student Council VP: Survey Shows TFs are 'Overworked'
20 percent of GSAS respondents said they had experienced a significant delay in receiving paychecks, according to a recent survey presented at Wednesday night's Graduate Student Council meeting.
Queer Groups Formed for Graduate Students and Staff
Two new queer groups were formed this fall to better serve and unite the non-undergraduate BGLTQ community.
Teaching Campaign Gets Another Endorsement, Plans Outreach
The Teaching Campaign secured an endorsement from the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality last Thursday, as it bumped up efforts to rally undergraduate support.
Campaign To Reduce Section Sizes Gathers Momentum
A campaign for smaller sections started by GSAS students garnered the endorsement of the English Department, which on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of a motion to limit section sizes to 12 students.
Campaigning with Limits
Harvard’s teaching fellows want a universal section cap, but administrators say the goal is neither needed nor practicable.
Graduate Students Present Research at Annual Symposium
Eight graduate students presented research on a range of topics at the Harvard Horizons symposium on Tuesday in Sanders Theatre.
Graduate Students Form Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Members of a recently formed coalition to address sexual assault at Harvard gathered Tuesday evening to craft their group’s name, mission statement, and plan of action.
In Annual Elections, Graduate Student Council Retains Many Officers
At the Graduate Student Council’s annual elections on Wednesday, many students involved with the Harvard Teaching Campaign were among the candidates elected as GSC officers.
Teaching Campaign Looks To Diversify Support Base
The Harvard Teaching Campaign is looking to diversify its support base in an effort to caption section size and improve undergraduates' experience.
UC Endorses Capping Section Sizes
Undergraduate Council representatives, in collaboration with the Graduate Student Council, endorsed capping the size of “every graded section or lab group” at 12 students and making the limit a College policy at the UC’s meeting on Monday evening.
Section Size, Teaching Concerns Center of Latest Graduate Student Forum
After the discussion, graduate students who attended reiterated their basic concerns, which they said were aired at length during the meeting.
Teaching Town Hall
Graduate students chat after a town hall meeting about the teaching fellows system in March. Students cited late paychecks, large section sizes, and teaching appointments as problems with the current system.
Graduate Student Council Passes DoubleTree Resolution
The resolution, which is nearly identical to one passed by the Undergraduate Council earlier this week, calls upon the graduate body to urge relevant Harvard administrators to support fair process as workers decide whether or not to unionize.