Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apart from losing the benefits of diversity, the Brown students said they are worried that uneven racial distribution will lead to additional strain on the school's residential minority peer counselors, who complete extra training on issues of race and class and offer workshops on those areas to first-years of color...
...there are units that have 50 percentstudents of color, the minority peer counselors inthose units will have a lot more to do than thosein units with only 10 percent minorities," Letzlersaid...
Perhaps most controversial is The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, who asserts that relationships with peers--not parents--determine how children turn out. No less alarming is "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" by Hara Estroff Marano, who reports that peer rejection puts children at risk for dropping out, teen pregnancy, drugs, criminality and mental-health problems...
...drawn from major Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospitals. We provide 180,000 ambulatory visits per year, with over 60 percent of them student visits. We emphasize preventive medicine as well as treatment. We have at least three intake mechanisms for collecting concerns about communication and quality of care: the Peer Student Advisory Program through the Student Health Advisory Council; the Patient Advocate's Office at 495-7583; and contact by telephone, letter or e-mail to the Director of UHS at 75 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, 495-2010 or drose@uhs.harvard.edu. We have a Quality Management Committee that...
...physical harm. The suicide rate for gay and lesbian youth is three times the norm, making the quality of their young lives sadly obvious. Every year we receive tens of thousands of calls on our toll-free telephone hotline (1-888-THE-GLNH) from people who need information, peer counseling or referrals. What happened to Shepard could happen to any of us. And someday it might. BRAD BECKER, Executive Director Gay and Lesbian National Hotline San Francisco...