I was last at Harvard in 1981, but even as a teaching fellow for one course I was faculty. My ID said "Faculty", I could eat at the Faculty Club, etc. Ditto whe

I was last at Harvard in 1981, but even as a teaching fellow for one course I was faculty. My ID said "Faculty", I could eat at the Faculty Club, etc. Ditto when I was a Post-Doctoral/Research Fellow there. (Some of my fondest post-doc memories are of sharing a lunch table with guys like Tom Schelling.) I'm guessing that "Resident Deans" are like what we used to call "Senior Tutors". Whether or not that's the case, it seems pretty clear to me that Harvard tradition would call for them to be treated with the same courtesies (other) faculty are. Indeed, by a large margin, they probably have MORE influence on undergraduate students' academic success than any one professor or teaching fellow generally does.