Word: teach
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...reforms, prepared for the Faculty by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, require every full-time Faculty member to teach a minimum of one tutorial each term. In addition, the legislation asks professors to supervise all tutorials taught by graduate students and to offer special seminars in lieu of graduate-taught junior tutorials. The legislation also mandates a student-faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial program and recommend changes to the department's head tutor and chairman...
...goal of these reforms--to force Faculty commitment to the tutorial system--is in keeping with the original, commendable spirit of the tutorial concept. But this legislation, which lacks formal methods of enforcement, must falter before a predominantly resistant teaching staff. The history of failed tutorial legislation sadly presages this effort's fate. The 1958 tutorial regulations, which allegedly still guide each department, require that Faculty members teach a minimum of 30% of a department's tutorials and that graduate students teach no more than 30%. However, a 1977 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest...
THERE ARE NO indications that Bower sock's efforts will fare any better. The reform's language alone is hardly compelling. The legislation asks that "normally" full-time faculty members teach a minimum of one tutorial each term, providing a loophole for innumerable abnormal exceptions. The student-faculty committee may only "recommend remedial steps" to the head tutor and chairman. If department heads choose to ignore committee recommendations, so be it. Finally, the reforms humbly beg that "consideration should be given to the possibility" of hiring lecturers for tutorial instruction...
...discussed it with Faculty Council members." He explained he did not think the legislation applied to a small department like Philosophy where student-faculty contact occurs informally. Consequently, Ricketts said he does not plan to set up the required student-faculty committee nor press each Philosophy professor to teach a tutorial...
...bottom line, the Faculty created tutorials to accomplish two ends: integrate a field and teach methodology. Graduate students--verve or no verve--lack the breadth of knowledge or expertise of professors that might enable them to attain these high ideals. With only haphazard guidance from a head tutor, graduate student instruction is essentially a case of you pays your money, you takes your chances...