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Courtyard legends would be born. Stories will be retold years from now about how The House Master left his footprints on the backboard, Popcorn Chicken dunked blindfolded, and The Senior Tutor jumped over that...
Presently, there are serious problems in the distribution of tutors covering concentrations. For example, Cabot House has no resident Economics tutor, and Leverett lacks a resident Government tutor. Spreading out tutors across concentrations is made even more difficult by the significant turnover that occurs each year—some Houses have as much as 50 percent of their tutors leaving at the end of a year. Moreover, tutors also leave during the academic year, hurting those students whom the tutor advised. Eliot House, for instance, is losing their Economics tutor and therefore has been forced to actively recruit students from...
However, no House can have a tutor in every subject. Each House generally has 17 to 20 resident tutors, and there are roughly 40 concentrations, making a residential tutor for every field impossible. But if Houses were to share their tutors with those Houses in their immediate proximity, then students could have easy access to someone in their field. Simply put, the Houses should be formed into zones of three Houses each that collaborate with each other to ensure that most, if not all, fields are covered by the Houses’ collective tutors. The zones would be as follows...
With the Houses in each zone pooling resources, students would be assured that they would have a tutor to advise them in one of three Houses in their zone. At the same time, the new selection process would not detract from House life. Resident tutors are crucial to forming a distinctive community within each House, and in no way should the character of each House be homogenized. The zoning procedure, however, still gives Houses great autonomy, allowing them to maintain House personality, and at the same time, helping them better meet the academic needs of students. Furthermore, this new selection...
...proposed reform would not be difficult to achieve, and should be implemented as quickly as possible. Ideally, Houses would adopt these changes this year, as Houses cannot notify prospective tutors before Feb. 28. But even if this is not feasible, Houses should strive next year to work more collaboratively in the tutor selection process. Certainly, the tutor system is not the be all and end all of academic advising. Many other changes need to take place such as reviving a largely defunct student advisory system, where upperclassmen would offer recommendations to fellow students—a move that administrators...