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Starting this week, as many as 125 freshmen will be meeting in small groups with faculty and administrators as part of a new initiative undertaken by the Freshman Dean’s Office to increase informal interactions between students and adults outside of an academic context.
The initiative is the result of years of exit interviews, according to education professor Richard J. Light, that have revealed that while many students report having had a fulfilling experience at Harvard, they also tend to feel that they missed the opportunity to discuss aspects of student life in an...
He said in an e-mailed statement that he’s planning on requiring “a self-directed outdoor practicum in the phenomenology of place and, with it, a series of informal creative writing assignments.”
In response to meetings with students and self-review, the faculty is completing a wholesale curriculum reform that will usher in next year: a new advising system with two faculty dedicated full time to advising and programming, a revised sophomore tutorial program, a new set of junior research seminars, an...
Miles W. Canaday ’10, a Memorial Church usher, says he finds the informal atmosphere to be a good change of pace.