Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blackmer Plan--providing individual tutorial for honors seniors and five-man groups for the others--is surprisingly good. If every professor in each of the five main departments were willing to undertake a full tutorial load, only the Social Relations department would still need more money for a tutoring staff. Social Relations is a special case for two reasons. The number of concentrators in this department has grown rapidly during the last few years, and money allotments from the University have not kept pace. Also Social Relations always employs a large group of guest lecturers which can never tutor...
Extending tutorial is not only a money matter, however. Faculty interest and enthusiasm for tutoring is also necessary. If all of the senior men in the English and Economics departments participated, these departments would be able to tutor all their non-honors men effectively with little outside help. Unfortunately, preoccupation with writing and government work prohibits adding tutorial here without reducing the number of courses...
...tutor, of course, should perform the all-important advisory functions...
...grading a student's work in tutorial, many feel that this is necessary to insure that assignments are not neglected in the face of other academic pressures. While some written comment at the end of the year is undoubtedly desirable as a check on both student and tutor, we agree with the Blackmer Report that the application of letter grades to tutorial would be more harm than good...
...weekly meetings should be at least two hours long; where possible student and tutor should be from the same House; and the tutor should be capable of advising as well as tutoring--these are all principles which everyone agrees should be carried out given adequate funds and manpower...