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“If the proctors have fewer people to advise academically, then they can give more time to each and the students can feel consequently that their needs are being addressed more fully,” Dingman says.
There are currently 250 non-residential freshman advisers—including some 30 junior and senior faculty members—each of whom advise about two or three first-years apiece.
Proctors say that, since they advise many students at a time, it may be easier for them to stay on top of logistical details and academic requirements than someone who only has a few advisees...
Differences abound in how individual departments advise their concentrators. From the personnel involved—everyone from graduate students, peer advisers, faculty within and without the department, and House tutors—to the various scheduling methods for advising—by appointment, walk-in, or published office hours?...
These differences are evident to students who have experienced both ends of the spectrum. “In philosophy it’s a much smaller concentration, so the head tutor could advise me,” says Joshua A. Barro ’05, a psychology concentrator who changed...