Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student made a formal complaint against a peer, seeking an investigation of the facts and formal disciplinary response from Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles...
...problem with the system was that many students avoided or were not comfortable with the outreaches. However, instead of imaginatively and interactively exploring new means of spreading the word about counseling on campus, the administration unilaterally forbade the peer counseling groups from contacting the first years and ended all mandatory outreaches. Members of the classes of '99 and '00 likely never attended an outreach and all too many have no idea about the variety of counseling opportunities and resources on campus. Not surprisingly, the numbers of students who have taken advantage of the peer counseling groups on campus has dropped...
...through this semester, in the face of dropping numbers and the virtual paralysis of the peer counselors, the administration shifted their policy slightly. Peer counseling groups can now initiate contact with a proctor group's peer counseling representative, but the peer reps still have no obligation to do outreaches and are only provided with the barest outlines of a job description...
...University claims that outreaches bring problems to the surface and then leave the proctors to deal with the newly discovered issues alone. A strange claim to make, on two counts. First, the issues exist whether or not peer counseling groups discuss them in an open format. It seems incredibly strange to me that the University, as committed as it is to an open intellectual forum and the free discussion of ideas in the academic arena, would want to limit discussion in the much more real arena of life experience and human interaction. Second, the peer counseling groups exist...
...time for the University administration, the peer counselors and University Health Services to come together to reevaluate the structure of outreach and communication on this campus. The continued sanity of our students depends...