Word: peering
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...Quite frankly, for many of my colleagues, it is too little, too late,” Shaw writes in an e-mail. “It is notable that most of our peer institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania...have long had more impressive records on the hiring, promotion, and intellectual support of women scholars than has Harvard...
...years, various curricular review committees have considered such major changes as a shift to Yale-style housing—in which freshmen would be matched with an upperclass House from the start—a move to push back concentration choice to sophomore year, and calls for more formal peer and faculty advising...
Shifting roles for freshman proctors and House staff may go hand-in-hand with efforts at integrating freshmen and upperclassmen, primarily through peer advising and College-sponsored social activities...
...interview this month, University President Lawrence H. Summers listed among his accomplishments of the past year a move towards an advising system that would “emphasize a peer-to-peer context” over the next few years...
Brown says that peer advising could provide freshmen with knowledge of “specific courses and specific professors, which is something that proctors usually can’t talk about...