Word: petersons
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...policy, enacted by Head Tutor Mark A. Peterson in response to a shortage of thesis advisors, is unnecessarily exclusive. As an intellectually beneficial experience, theses are democratic: all students, not just the top-ranked, can benefit from them. The entire premise of these new restrictions--that lower-ranked students produce lower-quality research--is tenuous at best. Grades often are not an accurate predictor of thesis success...
...important to realize how insecure we are about what those demands are going to be," says Peterson. He adds the department has "zero idea" of what will be the hot areas for next year's sophomore class...
When a faculty member is hired, it can mean an eight-year budget committment for junior professors or a 40-year commitment for senior faculty. Peterson says that this makes it difficult to make hiring decisions based on unpredictable and often-shifting undergraduate trends...
...There are real institutional constraints that any group or organization such as ours would face," says Peterson...
...seems that "the constraints of responsible management" apply as well to the University as they do to the topics in Peterson's American government courses...