The Allston Burr Senior Tutor, or simply the Senior Tutor, is the highest-ranking academic officer of an undergraduate House at Harvard College. In this capacity, the Senior Tutor is effectively the academic dean of the house, and the administrator of resident and non-resident tutors. In most circumstances, the Senior Tutor holds a doctoral degree in his or her field of study but does not hold tenure as a Professor at Harvard University. Within the academic departments of the University and among the faculty, the Senior Tutor is always outranked by the House Master that holds an endowed chair on the faculty. However within the House community, the Senior Tutor is in charge of academic matters and undergraduate advising. Today Harvard College is the undergraduate portion of Harvard University. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...
All Allston Burr Senior Tutors sit on the Administrative Board of Harvard College, and report to the Dean of the College.
Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors live in twelve residential houses, 9 of which are south of Harvard Yard along or near the Charles River and 3 of which are located in a residential neigborhood half a mile northwest of the Yard called the Quadrangle.
Each house is presided over by a "Master"—a senior faculty member who is responsible for guiding the social life and community of the House—and a "SeniorTutor", who acts as dean of the students in the House in its administrative role.
The House system was instituted by Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell in the 1930s, although the number of Houses, their demographics, and the methods by which students are assigned to particular Houses have all changed drastically since the founding of the system.
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