Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With goals like these, perhaps it is no surprise that Maass is retiring at 66, the earliest possible age at Harvard. "All the peer pressure not to retire is immense," Maass says. "If you decide you want to do it, you fear it will be interpreted another way"--that you "have nothing to say to the students...or that your research has dried...
Given that a certain number of TF's will prove to be peer instructors. Verba has promoted departmental evaluations, regular use of the Danforth Center, and more interaction between professors and TF's as methods of improving teaching quality...
Counselors at University Health Services (UHS) and the Bureau of Study Counsel stress the growing importance of peer counseling groups. Nadja B. Gould, a clinical social worker at UHS who supervises those groups, calls them "a resource that does not exist anywhere else in the University...
...Suzanne Repetto, senior counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and supervisor for EPO and Room 13, notes that after the recent suicides at Harvard, peer support services were especially helpful Room 13 in particular "rescued [some] students reacting to the suicides with depressed feelings," she adds...
Both Gould and Repetto say that the support groups also provide a link between students and the official University counseling services. All of the peer groups refer people to UHS and the Bureau when they feel students have a problem which they cannot handle. The process works in reverse as well: the professional counselors sometimes refer students to their peers...