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According to New, the English department asks every member of the faculty to advise at least one student thesis—and the Visual and Environmental Studies department asks its own to advise three or four, according to DUS Paul Stopforth.
“You should teach, research, and you should advise,” he says. “Those are the three primary facets to a professorship.”
In fact, some economics professors do not advise theses at all—although the Curricular Review report says, “We remind colleagues that legislation adopted by the Faculty in 1979 requires all faculty to advise at least one senior thesis or tutorial.”
According to Goldfarb, one student in the last thesis cycle was advised by a lecturer in the Department of the Study of Religion and he says he once convinced an MIT professor to advise a student thesis.
“Professors want to advise on topics they know about,” says UPSO co-chair Kelly N. Fahl ’06. “If your interests lie outside the scope of the department, it would be practically impossible to do it with a Harvard...