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Victoria L. Sprow ’06, who serves on the working group examining advising, says her committee found first-year advising to be inconsistent. Under the system, most first-years are advised academically by the dorm proctors, but others are assigned an adviser from a pool of administrative staff from around the College and a small number of faculty volunteers...
Ryan D. Hughes ’06 says he took Government 1540, “The American Presidency,” as a first-year after being told by his proctor that he could petition to have it count as a Core...
...head of the FDO—which is in charge of hiring proctors and is responsible for first-year advising—says that this year’s mid-year survey found that some people do not even use their advisers...
...notes that the first-year adviser’s job—providing general advising on questions that run the gamut of the curriculum—“is not quite as simple as people sometimes feel...
Nathans says that the FDO has not been a major part of discussions on changing first-year advising. She says she was only consulted once, briefly, by Lisa L. Martin, the co-chair of the Working Group on Overall Academic Experience that’s looking at advising. Martin, the Dillon professor of international affairs, declined comment for this story...