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Moreover, how can a senior tutor be expected to learn the nuances of each student’s academic plan of study or roommate dilemmas or counseling needs, each year? And how can a student be expected to re-explain himself to a new advisor every fall term? If anything, effective advising and counseling—and even administrating—requires consistency. Not only must it be of stellar quality, by means of personal attention and genuine concern by the senior tutor, but it should also be reliable and consistent. High turnover rates and short terms belie that very...
...through without any guidance at all. First-year advising is appallingly impersonal, and especially cruel given the fact that such negligence takes place during our first two semesters at the College. Upperclass students, however, have a chance at genuine, personal advising. The houses support a staff of residential tutors that specialize in a number of different academic subjects, and there are enough of them that students can actually receive individual attention. And they are lead by a senior tutor who should oversee the student’s academic and personal well-being...
...might be that aspiring academics do not quite fit the senior tutor bill. First, there is no reason that a would-be professor would be able to perform the senior tutor’s responsibilities better than any other. And, second, academics undergo publish-or-perish strains that others dont have to grapple with. Undergraduates need concerned and informed senior tutors who value student success above their own, and who prioritize advising and counseling above managing and administrating. And once the College finds such stellar senior tutors, they need to make every effort to hold onto them...
...drug once,” said Hist & Lit tutor Evan F. Bennett ’98 to Gary A. Mohammed ’03 during a highly uncomfortable one-on-one tutorial last Wednesday intended to discuss Mohammed’s junior paper, “but I won’t touch crack. Because once you do crack, you’re a crackhead.” After a 4/20 celebration that went bizarrely awry on Saturday, Bennett is now a crackhead...
Trowbridge, who graduated from Georgetown and received an MBA from Yale, is now the resident business tutor in Winthrop. His wife, Shannon Trowbridge, is the resident government tutor and is currently working towards a doctorate in government. Because he works from their apartment, Trowbridge spends extensive time in the House, he boasts weirdly. His current office “normally would be a bedroom,” he says...