Word: moseses
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"We want to strike a middle ground between coddling the freshmen and leaving them bereft," Moses says. "Lots of freshmen I have known think of themselves as being left to sink or swim. Freshmen have been so well-served by their senior advisors without knowing it; there is no way...
Besides supervising the advising system, Moses has grappled with other standard problems confronting first-year students in the past 14 years, including sexism, racism and aiding students in adjusting to college life.
"We have tried to damp down sexism, racism, classism, veneration of old Harvard for the wrong reasons by laughing at it whenever we've seen it," said Moses. "I think we have tried to take each freshman on his or her own terms--male or female, white or person of...
"We failed," Moses says. "In spite of all of it, there are still persons of color who don't feel like they own the place, women who feel alienated, and people who feel they have to compromise themselves too much to be a part of Harvard."
Besides instituting new programs, Moses has spent much of his time reflecting about the adjustment students must make once they come to college. Moses recently published a book entitled Inside College, which details many students' struggle with newfound freedom and dealing with a diverse community for the first time.