Word: fdo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FDO selects 25 proctors from approximately 115 applicants each year. Despite efforts at publicity, however, the applicant pool has not grown in the last few years. Ellen Porter, former senior adviser and now a proctor, surmises that shrinking Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrollment, coupled with an increasing reluctance on the part of graduate students to devote private time to proctoring, is responsible for the limited number of candidates...
While the FDO has worked to improve the design of the proctoring system through increased briefings and monthly meetings with proctors and evaluations such as the year-end survey, Moses says its performance has not necessarily exhibited an upward trend. And Lewis's statistics bear out that presumption; although the ratings have increased for academic advising over the last five years, those for proctors have remained stable...
...best a proctor can do when faced with a situation he can't handle, FDO administrators admit, is refer a student to a support service, or to a higher authority such as a senior adviser. "If there's ever a question, the FDO is here with the answers," Moses says...
...adviser." The office prepares proctors and advisers for these duties in two half-day sessions, where they are blitzed with information. But Porter says a new proctor or adviser will not be able to offer adequate counseling if he chooses to depend only on the information provided by the FDO. "If a proctor supplements the initiative with his own initiative, it is definitely enough," Porter says, adding, "The best training is having gone through it once. So much is trial and error...
...FDO tries to keep a tight rein on advising. While Moses says he considers "informal, off the cuff advice a precious resource," he is disturbed with "the premise that it's going to provide the best advice." The upperclassmen who work on the Freshman Task Force receive training from the FDO...