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“The process by which students find a thesis adviser requires they go talk to faculty members and grad students and that actually helps them hone their idea,” Campbell says. “If we had a matching process, that would short-circuit that whole...
One way to do this is strongly requesting faculty members to take on more advisees—a tall order, as thesis advising often requires a great deal of time and effort on the part of the faculty.
In fact, some economics professors do not advise theses at all—although the Curricular Review report says, “We remind colleagues that legislation adopted by the Faculty in 1979 requires all faculty to advise at least one senior thesis or tutorial.”
On the other hand, the Economics department—the largest concentration at Harvard—has taken a more market-oriented approach to thesis advising.
Students should have the freedom to flock to professors “who like [thesis advising] and are good at it,” and “students should avoid the bad ones,” according to Williamson. Also, potential adviser and advisee can themselves decide ?...