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Since at least May 4, 1937, The Crimson has been reporting on the ills of Harvard’s advising system. On that date, an editorial entitled “Wake Up and Think” formulated this reaction to a suggestion that seniors rather than “faculty...
Professors receive no formal recognition for their work on theses, meaning that apart from the pleasure of teaching—something that shouldn’t be discounted—there is little incentive for faculty to advise them. While department heads sometimes recommend graduate students over professors, saying that...
One way to provide quality control would be to offer teaching credits or financial compensation to faculty members who advise theses. (Graduate students receive some compensation—about $3,000 per student.) But students say they see a role for departments to step in to standardize and enforce guidelines...
Harvard hasn’t been easy, and it is not supposed to be. It is that first freshman seminar that you applied to but were rejected from. The a capella group that the vast majority of people who tried out for didn’t get in to. The...
Of course, having choices brings uncertainties, and uncertainties can create anxieties. We are well aware of the need to work with the Advising Programs Office to train next year’s Board of Freshmen Advisers to advise the class of 2012 in navigating through their choices and easing their...