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...recent shake-ups in the College administration, along with the momentum of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, suggest future modifications to the FDO and to the social and academic aspects of the freshman experience...
...last two years, various curricular review committees have considered such major changes as a shift to Yale-style housing—in which freshmen would be matched with an upperclass House from the start—a move to push back concentration choice to sophomore year, and calls for more formal peer and faculty advising...
While the curricular review’s Committee on Advising ultimately decided against the earlier recommendation to switch to Yale-style housing, top administrators say that a push for a new housing system that would bring freshmen in closer social and academic contact with upperclassmen is not off the table...
...It’s certainly possible that we would consider a different housing model in the future,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 writes in an e-mail. “But not as part of the advising proposal of the curricular review...
Known for her hard-nosed administrative style and firm leadership of the FDO, Nathans was openly opposed to many of the early recommendations of the curricular review, particularly the push towards Yale-style housing. At the helm of the FDO for over a decade, Nathans led an institution that held a large degree of autonomy within the College and oversaw both residential and advising aspects of freshman life...