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Another girl, who is concentrating in clinical psychology, says her advisor spent all of their time together trying to convince her to major in English. She says that she was so discouraged that when he gave her "one piece of good advice, I didn't take it. I never really tried to get much from him-he tried to be friendly, so I guess it's my fault...
...matter how much you care about students," added a former freshman advisor, "to help, you have to know the difference between Math 1a and Math 21." Limiting advisors to only academic counseling eliminates part of the problems, but even then, it is clear that they cannot help everyone. The key assumption in the Radcliffe system, according to Mrs. Elliott, is that will be "pluralism in counseling." Cliffics are obviously not using the official channels to find the information they need, and, in fact, some see the role of the advisor as an agent for directing the student to the places...
...flexible system is needed, then, to allow for this balance. Right now, perhaps the problem is not one of mathematics, but, should the time ever come when more Cliffics want more counseling, the system would bog down. It is not difficult to calculate that if an advisor saw each of forty advisees only one hour each week, he would be working an eight-hour day five days a week without doing anything else. And that is more than a one-fifth teaching...
SOME Cliffics, and some administrators, look to Harvard's system as the ideal. There, the dean of freshmen has five senior advisors under him, each of whom coordinates a geographical section of the Yard. Each section has thirty advisors, each of whom has eight to ten student advisees. Advisors do not live in the dorms, but proctors do, and they handle the bulk of student counseling. Each freshman has three official ("Viable," says Smith) sources of information, where as a Cliffic has only her advisor and her dean ("unlivable sources...
Should there be more freshman advisors at Radcliffe? Radcliffe cannot afford to pay any more, but the Administration has at its disposal unused manpower. Each House has associates, for example, who have nebulous, unspecified functions but who appear at all House dinners. They are tenured Faculty members and have limited free time, but if each House has twenty, and each professor saw one student, each advisor's load would be cut to twenty-five. If, in addition, Radcliffe accepted the people in the admissions office who want to advise, for example, the Ioad would be lightened still further. (According...