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Harvard will be creating additional housing in the Radcliffe Quad this summer, Associate Dean of the College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said Tuesday...
Nine months after Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced that the residential capacity of Pforzheimer House’s Wolbach building could be expanded, Dingman confirmed that between Wolbach and the Jordans, overflow housing for Quad students will house more students after renovations this summer...
...even suggested cutting the number of resident tutors living in Houses so as to provide students with much needed breathing space. Yet, while each of these proposals deals with the issue of overcrowding, none specifically deals with the issue of overflowing. As Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 notes, the intention of these policies is not to free up enough space so that all students can live in their main House buildings. Rather it is to alleviate the more pressing space issues that have caused students to sleep in common rooms and triple-bunk...
...Dingman, who has been traveling the country checking out colleges with his two teenage daughters, does not know “of another school where there are so many non-students in residence.” Indeed, the numbers are impressive, particularly when compared to other schools. Quincy House Senior Tutor Maria Trumpler, an experienced administrator who advised at Yale for over 17 years, agrees. While there are 23 tutors living in Quincy House alone, Yale only houses two to four graduate students per college (their equivalent to a House). According to Trumpler, the huge ratio of students to residential...
Just as proctors can’t connect without some initiative on the part of first-years, tutors often have even more difficulty getting to know undergraduates on a personal level. Dingman notes that students often avoid discussing their academic and social problems with tutors out of a fear that their honesty will preclude sterling recommendation letters in the future. “Students think ‘I won’t look like a sturdy candidate for fellowships later,’” Dingman says. James L. Stillwell ’04 confirms this suspicion...