Access to Factrak

jeke
Fri, 30 May 2008 16:59:01 +0000

You can only use factrak once your account has been added to the system, which is unlikely to happen until the fall since it’s a student-run service. If you have a question about a specific prof, you can usually PM one of the current students that uses these boards (including me, although I won’t be checking very often for at least the next few weeks) and ask us to look it up for you. Your JAs will also probably be willing to check factrak for you, and you can change your registration once you arrive on campus, so right now it’s only really critical to decide on the classes that you think will fill up (which you can get a pretty clear picture of from the enrollment limit/expected numbers in the catalog).

rl.hill: It’s not true that the administration tries to stick bad profs in first-year classes. Departments, not the administration, decide who teaches what class, and most departments have pretty much all their professors teaching intro classes, either by rotation (as in most of the sciences where there’s only one intro class) or by offering a diverse set of intro classes (e.g., English). The only departments that I know of that keep one single professor teaching their intro classes are math (106, Adams) and music (103/104, Gollin), and in both cases those profs are among the best in the department.