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...broaden [the academic path] that they would otherwise take if just left to their own devices.”The History Department is aiming to reform their advising system as well. According to Adam G. Beaver, the assistant director of undergraduate studies, there are four layers of academic advising??drop in or by appointment department advising, House advisers, department-funded events which promote interaction with faculty, and peer concentration counselors. Beaver said the department is looking to add more House-based outreach by hosting faculty lunches and historical movies in the houses.History concentrator Sergio Prado...
Granted, for many the financial impact of $10 is relatively small. However, the fine stigmatizes the idea of changing one’s schedule. If the administration’s goal is to encourage prudent scheduling decisions, it should provide improved advising??not a fine...
...will be preserved, in spite of its glaring problems. This decision does not encourage student freedom, but rather general ambiguity and confusion. Moreover, it will likely condemn one group or the other to a few semesters’ worth of inhospitable course choices from scant options and even worse advising??not the ideal way to kick off a new epoch of learning in Cambridge...
Those who choose to switch concentrations are in a particularly tricky situation: Having lost my concentration adviser, I was left in a between-department vacuum. With the delay of concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, Harvard should take the opportunity to seriously rethink its approach to advising??and hopefully steer its cumbersome bureaucracy towards catching the errors that really matter...
...compounded by the recent delay in concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, which leaves first-semester sophomores largely in the abyss. We hope that the new dean will devote time, energy, and money towards shoring up this broken system across the College. That means not just freshman advising??which has been receiving the bulk of the attention of the new Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere—but advising for sophomores and upperclassmen.As for writing, a study commissioned by interim University President Derek C. Bok will provide the dean with a goldmine of data...