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...departure, confirmed yesterday by University Hall, marks the end of an era for the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO), which Nathans has headed for 12 years and will now be due for changes under Harvard’s ongoing curricular review...
Three professors and a former Nathans colleague confirmed that she is not leaving the office of her own accord. Nathans has been critical in the past of the review’s recommendations for changing first-year advising and the structure and responsibilities of the FDO. The top administrators in University Hall, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, have endorsed many of these proposals...
...ouster will likely be accompanied by other structural changes within the FDO in accordance with last spring’s curricular review report, which recommends an overhaul of undergraduate advising that would shift pre-concentration advising away from first-year proctors and the FDO. First-years may be paired with upperclass Houses upon their arrival, or be expected to seek academic advice from professionals at an advising center. None of the reports’ proposals have been put to vote by the Faculty...
Nathans—who has earned the reputation as a hard-nosed administrator with a firm hand over the FDO—is opposed to a move that would shift responsibility for first-year life toward the Houses, away from the Yard and the FDO building at 6 Garden...
Nathans, who holds a doctorate in history from Johns Hopkins, has been at the helm of the FDO since 1992, when she came to Harvard from Duke University. Nathans also chairs the Board of Freshman Advisers and the Harvard College-University Health Services Committee...