Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he focuses his critique on the "heavy socio-political overtones" in the peer groups' posters, David Goldbrenner's voice and reasoning fundamentally berate the "quality and intent" of the campus peer counseling groups, and it is this for which I hold him accountable...
...then proceeds to chide peer counseling groups for obscuring our callers' and visitors' concerns with "politics and larger societal issues...
...credit David Goldbrenner for making me realize that some students see us that way. And if people who wish to talk about their own or their friends' experiences are intimidated by us for that reason, peer groups should be genuinely concerned...
Crabtree and her colleagues note that earlier drafts of National Standards were subjected to peer review by hundreds of scholars and teachers as well as by focus groups that included members of the American Historical Association. According to one member of the policy-setting group, historian Elizabeth Fox- Genovese of Emory University, some of these meetings became academic combat zones. The project was "tremendously politicized by the professional associations," she says. In general, historians sought to de-emphasize political history while teachers were more sympathetic about keeping it. "Probably the biggest battle is between history and social studies. The social...
...College offers several resources for students with eating problems. The Bureau of Study Counsel, the University Health Services (UHS) and the undergraduate-run Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) all cater to their needs with counseling, peer groups and medical attention...