At Lancaster each undergraduate is assigned a 'College Tutor', who is a senior member of the student's College. Your College Tutor will normally meet you in the first week of your first year, and remain in touch with you throughout your three or four years.

The emphasis of the Tutorial System is on first-year undergraduates, though you will keep the same College Tutor throughout your undergraduate studies at Lancaster. It is the Colleges’ agreed policy that in your first year you will be asked by your Tutor to meet informally once each term, so that we can learn of your experience at the University and listen to any difficulties you might have encountered.

You can of course decline the termly invitation to meet up with your College Personal Tutor, but it would be courteous that he/she should be told, rather than left uncertain whether or not you would be going.

In your second and third years, the College Tutorial system is less proactive than in the first. You will not be contacted by your Personal Tutor, though it is hoped that you will find it helpful or beneficial to keep in contact with him/her as your University life progresses. It would perhaps be courteous just to tell them of your academic or other successes as well as any possible difficulty you might be experiencing.

College tutors have no disciplinary function; they are there simply as people to whom you can turn should you need help or advice. They are (usually) not professional counsellors but if they cannot solve your problem at once they can refer you to the nearest expert. In addition to his or her helping function, a tutor is good to have just as an extra friend among the senior members of staff of the University.

Should you wish for any reason to change from the tutor to whom you have been allocated to another tutor in the College, just ask the Senior Tutor, Kevin Huggett

The College tutorial and welfare system is co-ordinated by the Senior Tutor who is always happy to talk with any member of the College about problems or difficulties of any sort. Phone him on ext 95082 in the Chaplaincy Centre on the first floor, email him at k.huggett@lancaster.ac.uk, or contact him via the College Office.