Word: freshman
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Under the freshman advising system, eachstudent is assigned to a proctor--a Harvardgraduate student or administrator--who lives inthe student's dormitory and takes care ofday-to-day problems for a group of approximately35 people. Proctors also serve as academicadvisers for most of their freshmen, although someare given nonresident advisers. Six senioradvisers oversee the process providing a secondlevel of supervision and counseling...
...proctors and other freshman advisers saythat neither time nor knowledge is usually aproblem. They say they do not need to be familiarwith all aspects of Harvard because their role isto guide students to the correct resources. Andmost proctors work out ways to keep in touch withtheir charges, administrators...
Some critics of the freshman advising systemargue that the essential problem is that studentsare not encouraged sufficiently to come in and askquestions. Beginning with Freshman Week, officialHarvard is presented as as a set of rules to obeyrather than a resource to consult...
First-year proctor Johannes C. M. Zutt saysthis focus forces the proctor to be toorules-oriented, giving freshmen the wrongimpression of what Harvard is like. "One of thethings I think we should do is reform the approachthat proctors take in Freshman Week," says Zutt.He says that Harvard presents itself to freshmen"too much as a policing agent...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) and Harvardadministrators are trying to broaden the issues towhich proctors and students are exposed when theyarrive. Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs HildaHernandez-Gravelle spoke to proctors about racialawareness before the freshmen arrived andcoordinated a Freshman Week panel on the samesubject. Just last week, Assistant Dean forCoeducation Janet A. Viggiani talked to proctorsabout how to approach questions concerning sexualorientation...