Inside Higher Ed: Voltaire Wasn’t Cut Out to Be an Iowa State TA
At the best of all possible universities, teaching assistants feel appreciated by their superiors and cherish all of their students, and everyone works in harmony. Not, apparently, at Iowa State University.
There, the English department has been debating two satirical videos by teaching assistants — posted on YouTube and now removed, but available on Facebook — that portray TA duties teaching composition. (The videos may be found here and here.) In a series of faux interviews, TA’s talk about their working conditions, their students and the curriculum. Some of the talk is crude and mocking, although in the era of Harold and Kumar, the videos hardly push the envelope in that category.
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