Word: pilbeam
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Wolcowitz said most faculty members who would be affected by the proposal to ban the hourlies agree with it. "Dean [of Undergraduate Education] David Pilbeam raised the question [of eliminating hourlies] with the head tutors of all 17 concentrations eligible for honors hourlies, and did not sense that they were concerned [with the proposal]," Wolcowitz said. "He also wrote to 42 faculty members who opted to offer the option of honors hourlies in the last two years, and the overwhelming sense was that [the proposal] was just fine...
...like a 90-year-old grandmother," quipped Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam. "You expect her to die every year, but you're shocked when she actually does...
...There's a great deal of variability in the system from no tutorials to non-credit tutrorials, from departments who only have sophomore tutorials to junior seminars and junior tutorials--there's a whole range," says Pilbeam...
...function of junior tutorials is to prepare students for writing a senior thesis--an original piece of research," says Pilbeam. "Beginning in sophomore year, it [tutorial] introduces them to the structure of creative thinking in their field...
...Pilbeam also says he likes government's junior seminars. "It's a chance for real interaction," he says. "I would like to encourage more of the big departments to begin to think about...