Word: tutored
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...respond to the editorial (Opinon, Feb. 11) and article (News, Feb. 5) concerning undergraduate advising at Harvard and to the comments directed to the Economics Department in particular. In the editorial and related article, The Crimson remarked that the Economics Department ranked near bottom in advising and quoted Head Tutor Christopher Foote as saying "We have no plans to rework the system." Apparently, a large portion of the investigative reporting by The Crimson constituted putting those two sentences right next to each other...
...this meeting of the minds occurs, whether autonomously or at the behest of University Hall, I can only say that there are and will be, sadly, "no plans to rework the system". RISHI GANTI Feb. 11, 1999 The author is an advisor in the Department of Economics, a resident tutor in economics at Lowell House, and Head Teaching Fellow of Economics 1423, "Capital Markets...
...these tests. "If you give me the income tax returns of all the students being tested," says Kitty Kelly Epstein, who teaches education at California's Holy Names College, "I could predict how they would score and save millions of dollars." Well-off New York City parents hire tutors to give their kids a leg up, while poorer students depend on the goodwill of teachers generous enough to tutor them after school...
Faculty members taking leaves of absence may also lead to the over-burdening of other Faculty members. The head tutor or other senior Faculty member may be forced to take on a number of other advisees...
...there's one area which should be closely watched and standardized, it is advising. Without strong prompting from University Hall, some departments may never recognize that their undergraduates deserve careful attention. The Economics Department, for example, ranked 35th out of 38 concentrations on the 1998 senior survey. But Head Tutor and Associate Professor Christopher L. Foote says, "We have no plans to rework the system." If even one department holds on to this kind of "why fix what's broken?" philosophy, the College must step...