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...During Gross’s two-and-a-half years at the helm, the administration has taken large steps to improve undergraduate social life. Progress in academic reform, however, has come slowly as the Curricular Review—which Gross co-chairs—continues without a Faculty vote on its recommendations after three-and-a-half years...
...Gross and his senior staff use survey results to “inform our priorities,” he wrote in an e-mail Friday. And, as he indicated in an interview last month, the College has tried to improve the areas that student surveys have shown need work...
...Basically, we’re in good shape there,” Gross said...
...What comes out of the surveys is that students are dissatisfied with their contact with the Faculty, and they’re profoundly dissatisfied with advising,” Gross added. “They’re also dissatisfied with social life...
...thing I learned an awful lot from Dean O’Brien was to look at actual surveys and data,” said Gross, who assumed the College’s top post in 2003 and hired O’Brien, former dean of the Simmons College of Management and graduate of Harvard Business School, a year later. He said at the time that the tasks of his new job—presiding over the two main College domains previously headed by two deans—had left him feeling “overwhelmed...