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Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in English, said last week she did not see how the department's limited faculty resources could meet the legislation's requirements. This year only one English professor teaches a sophomore tutorial. McKinsey contends the department can't increase professors' participation in tutorials, without reducing the number of lecture courses offered--a sacrifice the department is unwilling to make...
FURTHERMORE, the legislation exhorts the Faculty to acknowledge the individualized student-professor relationship as the ideal tutorial goal. Again head tutors are less than obliging. McKinsey said she thinks graduate students make up for their lack of experience with their youthful verve. Besides, she reasons, "You can get the wisdom of the old gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor of the English Department, agreed with the council's defense of group tutorials yesterday, and pointed out that sophomore tutorials are most valuable when several students participate. Sophomore tutorials serve as an introduction for students to basic concepts in their concentration, she said. It is not until the junior year, as students begin to narrow their academic vision to more particular aspects of their study, that an individual tutorial becomes desirable, she added...
...McKinsey also observed that holding group tutorials is one way for fellow concentrators to become acquainted, and even more important, to learn from each other. "The sophomore tutorial is the base on which you can build your intellectual camaraderie for the rest of your academic career," she added...
...will have to deal with a lot of small people," Robert Holland, a partner in McKinsey and Company, said to the audience of B-School students and alumni...