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...tutorial is a tutorial is a tutorial. But what is the ideal tutorial? Obviously an individualized, intimate meeting between a senior faculty member and student, Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, stated in the introduction to his report on proposed tutorial reforms...
...obvious, Faculty Council members countered this week when they began to review Bowersock's recommended changes in tutorial legislation, which proposes increased faculty participation in tutorials...
Although Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty, is optimistic that the legislation will clear the Faculty in the spring, other Faculty CUE members are not so sure...
...other ideas fell by the wayside during the CUE discussions. An early version of the legislation would have required all seniors to get a crack at a senior Faculty member for a thesis adviser. Bowersock said that innovation simply would not be possible in some departments...
...Bowersock also suggested that the Faculty create a teaching rank of instructor for post-doctoral scholars who would have more time than graduate student teaching assistants and junior Faculty to teach tutorials. In the face of junior Faculty opposition, CUE revised the proposals to suggest departments instead hire additional full-time lecturers or part-time teaching assistants on an annual basis, if the departments don't have enough senior Faculty to handle the tutorial program...