Collegial atmosphere for a rigorous academic environment - Graduate Teaching Assistant Boston University Employee Review

Some faculty are nonresponsive to their doctoral students which delays the students' ability to move through their programs by weeks, months, or a year which creates collegial issues. Communication between departments and navigating personalities can be tricky or is sometimes ineffective. Teaching Assistants are often treated more as administrative assistants rather than doctoral students training to teach and needing significant teaching experience. Doctoral students rarely get to teach their own classes.