Word: tutored
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...rent proposal was not only insensitive to the importance of tutors, it contradicted the position of administrators who have declared support for strengthening the educational role of the Houses. Dean Epps, in his interview, advocated stronger emphasis on the Houses as an advising system, as a source of department tutorials and independent work, and as an other source of formal courses. Epps called strengthening the tutor system "absolutely crucial" and House courses a way to get senior faculty back in touch with tutors and with undergraduates...
...charging each tutor's spouse $1500 per year as proposed, the University could have raised an additional $28,000 per year. As explained by Dennis S. Klos, a married resident tutor in Social Relations living in Adams House, the same amount could have been raised, if need be, by charging every staff resident in the Houses $13 per month...
...Report, based on questionnaires circulated to residential tutors, will be ready in about a month. Preliminary findings may be reported to CUE in two weeks. The questionnaire tries to determine: the number of tutees associated with each tutor; the number of sections for which each tutor may be responsible; and the feelings of tutors with regard to tutorials in the Houses, extended informal contact with other students in their areas, and the current duties of the residential tutors in the Houses. As of a week ago, however, only 30-40 per cent of the residential tutors had replied...
According to Kyle, it may turn out that the name "residential tutor" is misleading, since the original concept of the tutor involved as much an advisory as an academic role. She called morale among tutors and grad students "low", and would personally suggest greater cooperation among tutors, Senior Tutors, and Masters, consultation with tutors on decisions affecting them, and a better evaluation of the Houses' needs as a means of improving the tutors' outlook. Kyle regards the proposal to charge married tutors rent as "insane...
...other hand, it would be impossible, in Kyle's view, to hold all tutorials in the Houses without massive new tutor assignments. As it is, she says, some departments do not even cooperate in matching tutors and tutees in the Houses. It is most important for juniors and seniors to have personalized tutoring, and until budgets for tutors and House education go up, she warns, nothing should be done which would leave students "boxed in" to their Houses for tutorial...