Kosslyn says that the tutors are usually formal affiliates of the houses they teach in and get to know their students well.
"Now we've taken advantage of the House-based program to bring tutors into the advising process," Kosslyn says.
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says that the kind of faculty interaction tutorials foster leads to ideal advising opportunities.
"Advising is best when it springs from some natural intellectual relationship between advisor and student, and tutorials form the most natural framework," writes Lewis in an e-mail message. "Faculty who lead tutorials serve as advisers to their students, whether they bear such a formal title or not, so strengthened tutorial programs result in improved advising as well."
Quality Time
"They're given enormous tender, loving care by the program," Kosslyn says.
But concentrations like Women's Studies and History and Literature go even further by offering junior tutorials that place a student one-on-one with a tutor.
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