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...editors: As a former proctor and director of the prefect program, I support the creation of an academic peer advising system for Harvard College but fear the best elements of the prefect program will be lost with its demise (“College Pulls Plug On Prefects,” news, Mar. 7). Good prefects forged relationships among freshmen in their entryway, facilitated the connection between older proctors and young freshmen, and provided an invaluable link between the Yard and the Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give...
...first associate dean of academic advising. On Monday, the novice administrator found herself in the middle of a hurricane when she announced that the Prefect Program would be “morphed into something else,” more than likely some form of College-funded peer advising program, before the 2006-2007 academic year. According to Rinere, the specifics of the new program are to be worked out by a to-be-formed Student Advisory Board, which will include the entire membership of the Prefect Program’s current executive board and other students selected by application...
...announcement caught the prefect board off guard, though exactly how is beyond me. The Standing Committee on Advising and Counselling proposed a peer advising program to “replace and augment” existing programs such as the Prefect Program in its January 2006 report. And according to Rinere, the prefects had been involved in a lengthy dialogue with the College about changes to the program well before this week’s announcement. Nonetheless, in an e-mail sent early Tuesday morning that rapidly spread across the Harvard community, the program’s board informed prefects that...
Once freshmen are pre-assigned to Houses, they should be matched with a peer academic advisor with the same residential affiliation, and with common academic interests over the summer. Consequently, landfall could be made in the advising relationship before the school year even began. The common ground that would be established by House affiliation would create an instant connection between advisor and advisee...
Recreating the freshman advising structure along these lines would lead to huge structural improvements in the quality of freshmen advising and in the consistency of House life. Assigning big siblings and peer advisors based on House affiliation would also create an incentive for freshmen to “buy-in” to their residential communities from the outset. The knowledge that one’s entryway-mates will be one’s neighbors and (with any luck) friends for the rest of one’s time at Harvard would create a strong incentive for freshmen to participate...