Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty members agree with student assessments. "The benefits are that the department knows who its concentrators are and concentrators do have direct contact with the faculty. It's a much more personal experience than people would have in other departments," says Peter J. Kempthorne, head tutor in Statistics. Students "get close to individual attention," agrees Marshall Hyatt, head tutor in Afro-American Studies. "It gives the members of the faculty the chance to get to know the individual," says Gary A. Tubb, chairman of the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies...
Professors agree that their greater personal contact with students makes for a more relaxed environment. "It's cozier," says Tubb. "We're small and we're friendly," agrees Karin E. Michelson, head tutor in Linguistics...
Thirty years ago Miller was a Winthrop House tutor and a teaching fellow in History and Literature. He had studied at Oxford University under C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and was prepared for a life in academia. But, Miller says, he found that "things of the mind have an attachment to the real world," and he discovered a desire to help shape policy...
Assistant Dean of the College and Dudley House Senior Tutor John R. Marquand serves as the group's faculty advisor. It has garnered endorsements for Kennedy from Walburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62, and Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter...
...really needed tutors], so I called them up. She [Rivera] became a tutor...