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...students settle in over the weekend, they meet the rest of their five-person intervention team. In addition to their mentor, their academic adviser and dean for first-year students Nasteff, the freshmen are introduced to that traditional student counselor, the resident adviser, and one more peer contact that reflects the college's Baptist background--a student called a shepherd, whose role is spiritual guidance. That guidance can mean helping freshmen study for midterms or praying with them. Jewell's campus is ecumenical--no religion courses or pledge of faith is required, and the student-senate leader is Jewish...
Many of the first-year students' first exploration of different worldviews will come in the required freshman seminar called The Responsible Self. "It sounds like a course in shampooing your hair," groans junior Andy Johnson, who nevertheless feels the course "taught me a lot about myself...
...secret is a first-year curriculum that is carefully designed to inspire repeated, meaningful interactions among its students. This is no easy task: as with many community colleges, everyone at Seattle Central lives off campus, and 80% hold full-time or part-time jobs. In many places with such an untethered, multitasking student body, it can be easy for freshmen to feel lost and alone. So Seattle Central encourages faculty to emphasize group work and keeps all its classes small. Average size...
...People who are very business- and entrepreneurial-minded might be a nice injection,” said first-year HLS student Katherine W. Wray...
Davis was one of the 906 students accepted to this year’s first-year class at Harvard Business School (HBS) out of a record 8,893 who applied...