Word: tutoring
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After Faculty voted to move concentration declaration to the middle of sophomore year, History and Literature decided to change individual junior tutorials to small groups of up to three students assigned to a tutor for the first half of the yearlong course...
...think it makes the conversation better and creates a more lively environment,” said Peter Becker, a History and Literature tutor. “[The students] see what their peers are doing, and there’s a certain incentive to push themselves...
Becker noted that the intellectual intensity of the one-on-one tutorial could be daunting to some students faced with the prospect of two-hour conversations with their tutor...
...Nightingale, the time spent with her tutor passed quickly, but she admitted that a student’s junior tutorial experience also depended on his or her “chemistry” with the tutor...
...said, adding that Cambridge at that time did not fit the bill.In 1981, after another 13 years at Yale, Pilbeam came to Harvard—the only place he would go other than Yale, he said.Pilbeam quickly immersed himself in the University community, acting as a professor, a head tutor for the human and evolutionary biology concentration, the dean of undergraduate education, a senior adviser to the dean of the College, the interim dean of the Faculty, and the dean of the College on an interim basis at some point during the past 27 years. University President Drew G. Faust...