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...Friends and colleagues say her background allows her to be concerned with a broad range of University issues...
...However, her background gave her the ability to serve as a communicator between displeased professors and the Corporation, Putnam says...
...According to Blair, who used to help operate Harvard’s graduate student mental health hotline, tutors often have a background working with students in residential settings or in counseling...
...sophomore year, she spent a summer co-directing the Summer Urban Program and worked year-round with the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) program. “Harvard’s always been an alienating place because I’ve never been around these people from privileged backgrounds,” Leng says. “There aren’t too many Cambodian refugees in Boston.” Through BRYE, though, Leng was able to work with Vietnamese refugees in Dorchester. “I could connect with those kinds of kids....Working with BRYE pushed...
...College students lack some of the background that graduate students have,” says Francis Fiorenza, the Stillman professor of Roman Catholic theological studies at the Divinity School. “It is difficult to keep undergraduates in mind...