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Acting First-Year Dean Ginger Mackay-Smith doesn't know what she'll be doing next year. But as far as this year is concerned, the headquarters for Harvard's 1600 first-year students is running just the way it always...
These distinctly low-key changes serve as an appropriate marking of the begining of the term of Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78 as Acting Dean of Freshmen. Like her office, she isn't a far cry from what came before. For as Mackay-Smith discusses her priorities and approaches to governing first-year life, one thing becomes clear: she is largely following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Henry C. Moses, who left Harvard last spring after a 10-year stint to become headmaster of Trinity School, a prestigious private school in New York...
That probably shouldn't come as a huge surprise to those familiar with Mackay-Smith's background, considering the fact that her life's primary administrative experience has fallen under Moses's supervision. After leaving a doctoral program in health policy at Harvard, she became a proctor in the Yard in 1984, a post she held until this year. In 1986, Mackay-Smith became a senior advisor for first-year students, and in 1988 she became an assistant dean...
Besides her firsthand experience with the Yardlings, Mackay-Smith says, she is relying heavily on the advising structure Moses built...
Farther down to perhaps the most grassroots level of advising, Mackay-Smith says she is an enthusiastic proponent of the Moses-initiated prefect program, which matches upperclass students with first-year entryways, as a means of helping integrate first-years with the rest of the College...