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First, the center will centralize women’s and gender resources. Harvard already has a patchwork of different resources that serve women’s specific needs, but they are often dispersed in the basements of houses and uncoordinated. For instance, there are many peer mentoring programs that help students deal with a slew of gender-related issues, yet these programs do not work with each other or with the University-sponsored programs that attempt to do the same thing...
...from Princeton to fill the new position. Arriving on campus on Feb. 27, Rinere made waves her sixth day on the job when she said that the Prefect Program—which matches upperclassmen with freshman entryways—would be “morphed” into a peer-advising group of upperclassmen...
...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...