Word: students
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Wilcox said yesterday that a group of students had expressed an interest in having such a course offered on Hispanic development. "Everyone always tells such student groups to go out and find someone who can teach it," he said, adding that the group chose Lopez, who agreed to teach the course...
...last year as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, he explains, a bigshot economics professor took him under his wing, doctored the young man's transcripts to make it look like Lopez had minored in economics, and sent him packing to Cambridge--as a graduate student in Economics. Lopez, who had never really taken any economic theory, went to classes here but, as he put it, "They might as well have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year, however, and transferred into the Law School...
...Harvard tutorial program chalked up its 65th birthday this year, it seems to be limping toward retirement. The idea of an intellectual challenge shared by a single student and his Faculty tutor is fading into oblivion. Tutorial instruction is now largely the duty of graduate teaching fellows, particularly in the larger departments, where professors spend more time in research and less time in individualized instruction with students. Most Faculty members now slip out of their tutorial responsibilities by advising a senior writing a thesis or--less frequently--reviewing a teaching fellow's reading list...
...which will require every Faculty member to take part in tutorials, either by teaching an individual or group tutorial, advising a senior thesis or teaching a special seminar. Departments with predominantly teaching fellow-taught tutorials must offer these special seminars--all run by full-time professors but containing more students than a tutorial--which sophomore and junior concentrators may take for one term in lieu of tutorial. In addition, the legislation mandates a student-Faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial program and recommend changes to the department's head tutor and chairman. If the department heads fail...
...most departments, what Bowersock called the "ideal tutorial situation"--one full-time Faculty member with one student--remains, like most ideals, unrealized. Higonnet says he will try "diplomatically" to maneuver Faculty members into participating in tutorials. If diplomacy fails, then he said he guesses he will "get more insistent." How insistent? Here Higonnet stops guessing, only stressing that in reforming tutorials it is important to "keep everybody happy...