Word: advisor
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...advisor to The Salient since its founding in 1981, Mansfield seems to serve as a kind of manly den-mother to the magazine staff, and his latest piece seems an effort to extend that relationship to the entire student body...
...He’s a very active Faculty advisor generally,” Kavulla wrote in his e-mail. “He attends some of our social functions—i.e. our recent croquet outing—and helps our members secure internships and jobs...
...Another advisor to the privatization program who also made forbidden investments in Russia, Jonathan Hay, was fired by the University once the U.S. Agency for International Development disbanded the program. But Hay was not a tenured professor—or, some skeptics are quick to point out, a friend of Harvard’s president...
Summers recused himself from the University’s legal strategy in the lawsuit, and Harvard called in former University President Derek C. Bok as an advisor. But Summers still has control over Shleifer’s fate at Harvard and seems to have stuck by his friend. In 2002, Summers’ first full year as president, Shleifer became the Whipple V. N. Jones professor of economics, adding an endowed chair at Harvard to his already lengthy resume. And the following year, when New York University’s Stern School of Business tried to lure him away with...
They complain, for instance, that there is no assistance in picking courses and that the advisors are bad. Seeing as I transferred from a school with 16,000 undergraduates, was often closed out of classes required for my major three times in a row, and the term advisor wasn’t really a part of the UCLA vocabulary, I am quite happy with a concentration advisor and an Allston Burr Senior Tutor— not to mention the 15 other tutors in the House there to offer help. A friend of mine once complained that picking classes himself...