Lawrence University and President Jill Beck hosted a two-day conference on tutorial education on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, 2007. The conference, titled Tutorial Education: History, Pedagogy, and Evolution, examined current practices in tutorial education at Oxford University, Williams College, Lawrence University, College of Wooster, Sarah Lawrence College, and Sewanee, College of the South.

You may find papers from the conference below, or participant information here.

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Jill Beck, President
Lawrence University

Keynote Address

"The Oxford Tutorial: History and Myth"
Alan Ryan, Warden of New College
University of Oxford

History, Philosophy, and Conceptual Foundations

"Oxford Tutorials"
Henry Mayr-Harting, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus

"Students' Experiences of the Formative Assessment of Essays in History and Archaeology at Oxford"
Duna Sabri, et al.
University of Oxford

"The St. John’s College Tutorial: A Communal Approach to the Education of the Individual"
Christopher Nelson, President
St. John’s College, Annapolis

"Independent Study at the College of Wooster"
Stan Hales, President
College of Wooster

Pedagogy

"Socrates in Stellenbosch and Tutorials in Oxford"
Gavin Williams, Fellow
St. Peter's College, University of Oxford

“The Pedagogy of the Oxford Tutorial”
Robert J. Beck, Visiting Professor of Education, Education Department
Lawrence University

"Tutorial Education at Sarah Lawrence College"
Barbara Kaplan, Dean
Sarah Lawrence College

Adapting Tutorials to Today's Liberal Arts College: The Williams College Experience

“Tutorials in the Sciences”
Sarah Bolton, Associate Professor of Physics
Williams College

"Tutorials on Computer Science"
Andrea Danyluk, Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Department
Williams College

"The Tutorial Program at Williams College"
Stephen Fix, Scott Professor of English and Director of the Tutorial Program
Williams College

"Tutorials in History: Fin-De-Siècle Russia"
William Wagner, Provost
Williams College

Keynote Address

“The (Re)Discovery of Tutorial and SmallGroup
Teaching: Driven by the Institution’s Marketing Strategy,
the Result of Academic and Pedagogic Commitment,
or the Product of Both?”
David Palfreyman
Bursar
New College, Oxford

Models of Individualized Learning: Building Students' Intellectual Autonomy

"Building Students’ Intellectual Autonomy: The Lawrence Philosophy of Education
and Examples from Across the Curriculum"
Elizabeth De Stasio, Associate Professor of Biology and the Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science
Lawrence University

Matthew Ansfield, Associate Professor of Psychology
Lawrence University

Paul Cohen, Professor of History and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies
Lawrence University
and Leigh Gilworth '06, Lawrence University

Timothy Spurgin, Associate Professor of English and the Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature
Lawrence University
and Nissa Syverson '07, Lawrence University

"The Studio Laboratory as a Learning Environment"
Nancy J. Berner
Sewanee: The University of the South