Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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 to respond the committee may appeal to Bowersock's office. Finally, Bowersock proposed that departments which lack a sufficient number of Faculty members to teach tutorials should consider hiring annual lecturers or teaching assistants whose sole responsibility would be to lead tutorials...
...plan indicates that persuasion has once again failed to compel departments to rejuvenate substantially Faculty involvement in tutorial instruction. In History--the department with the longest record of tutorial legislation violations--department members discussed tutorials at their last meeting this May. They agreed that Patrice L.R. Higonnet, head tutor in History, should "ask" History professors to "involve" themselves at some level in tutorials, perhaps nothing more than reviewing a teaching fellow's tutorial reading list and "occasionally" sitting in on his tutorials if the tutor has no objections, Higonnet says. "Nobody," Higonnet stressed, "will be made to teach a tutorial...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor in the English Department, plans to take a similar approach. She also says she will "invite" her colleagues to teach tutorials next year, but cannot predict how many professors will actually come forward. The English Department will not offer any special seminars next year, even though Bowersock's reforms mandate that all students who take tutorials "shall have the option in one term of their sophomore or junior year" to take a special professor-run seminar. McKinsey states simply, "We don't feel we need...
...departments perceive tutorial instruction as strictly teaching-fellow territory. Visual and Environmental Studies provides individual tutorial instruction by senior professors for each concentrator. Arthur Loeb, head tutor in Visual and Environmental Studies, said this week that the department only allows teaching fellows to serve as readers on theses. Sophomore and junior tutorials are not compulsory in the department, so the demand on Faculty time is not as heavy as it would be if larger departments adopted the same system...