Word: disciplinarianism
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...what can or should the College do? For top College and FAS administrators, it’s probably beneficial to have some really tough disciplinarians as underlings. As I said earlier, no one at Harvard wants to see students get injured. But there is a difference between being a disciplinarian and being unfair and unpleasant...
First, the advising system at this University needs to be overhauled. Completely. Beginning with the first-years, the concept of having one person playing your academic and personal advisor as well as your disciplinarian makes any trusting relationship with your proctor impossible. A lot of problems that could have been prevented by good advice early on become crises. In addition, when proctors don’t have the experience of having been undergraduates, it is almost impossible for them to provide good course counseling. There should be more proctors who recently attended the College. If possible, institute something along...
...first day of school, the police had to arrest students in nine fights--all before the morning bell. Inside the school--where test scores had stagnated below the 50th percentile--students routinely told off teachers. In response, Stiglbauer hired a gruff former New York police detective as her disciplinarian in chief. Her staff hauled the parents of truants into family court. And once kids were in her grasp, Stiglbauer never let them go. She "invited" struggling students to intense early-morning, after-school and summer drill sessions. But the bonus classes became so popular that close to half of Hand...
...doting which unfortunately evades title actor Alexis Burgess. The error is on the side of severity, as Burgess's Willis breaks George through boot camp discipline combined with asylum methods. His role in the production is not that of foil for the king's will, but, at best, of disciplinarian. Burgess's Willis is a tool to hammer reason back in George's head, an unsympathetic character who completes the range of the play's spectrum at the black-and-white...
...Former FDO officials say Nathans dramatically changed the tone and function of the office, from serving as an advocate for students to serving as a disciplinarian and University representative...