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Most peer advisers arrived on campus Thursday to attend a day-long training session on Friday. It was announced at the training that peer advisers?? budget—$30 per advisee per semester—would come in the form of Crimson Cash...
...Rinere also says her office “may refine the process somewhat next year after assessing this year’s process.”NEXT STEPSAs she quells the uproar over the peer-advising system, Rinere is seeking to bring more faculty members on board as advisers??non-faculty residential proctors shoulder the bulk of the freshman advising burden now. She also will work to consolidate advising resources in her office and on the Web and to improve advising within concentrations.With these challenges looming even as the Prefect Program uproar quiets down, it seems almost certain...
...both Fitzsimmons and Dingman say the ongoing communication helped fuel the expansion of financial aid over the past decade. Fitzsimmons says feedback from residential advisers??who said in that in some instances students were struggling to succeed because of loans or work-study, and that some were feeling pressure to select concentrations that would bring lucrative jobs to pay off debt—was “one of the big reasons” for the expansion...
...committees to seek the wisdom of the faculty,” according to Rosovsky, who also served on the Harvard Corporation from 1985 to 1996.Under the proposal presented at yesterday’s Faculty Council meeting, professors might become decision-makers—rather than advisers??in the dean search process.Such a proposal would take away the president’s power to use his dean selections as a way to steer the University’s course. But, according to some Harvard historians, that was a power that presidents never actually held.“Presidents think...
While most members of the freshmen class have residential advisers??their proctors—a few hundred students also get non-residential advisers drawn from the faculty and staff at Harvard. The FDO assigns residential and non-residential advisers over the summer as well. But unlike rooming, which is exclusively done by the ADF’s, advising assignments are made by a variety of people at the FDO, including Dingman and Associate Dean of Freshman Rory A. W. Browne...