Word: peering
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...best solution to advising overall would be a multi-tiered advising system that includes faculty, tutors and proctors, concentration advisers and peer advisers. With multiple levels of redundancy, students could pick which person they want to get advice from based on their advisers’ specialties and commitments. With this possibility in mind, we are particularly interested in the committee’s proposal to add a peer advising system, particularly for freshmen. However, we fear that recruiting advisers and making sure they pay attention to advisees on top of each student’s heavy workload will be difficult...
...North Korean Bomb, it is the people of Ilsan, a town of 500,000 situated north of Seoul just a few kilometers from the gash of barbed wire and land mines that has divided the Korean peninsula since 1953. From a local lookout point, the town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like Kim In Tae, who sells women's wear in Ilsan's Lotte department...
...response to this decentralization and the resulting student dissatisfaction with advising, the committee recommends the creation of a new position—a dean of advising—along with a peer advising program, under which each first-year student would be paired with an upperclassman during the summer before their arrival at Harvard...
University officials have emphasized that more graduate student housing is necessary in order to stay competitive with peer institutions...
...Unemployment runs at 18%, well above the national average of 11.8%. The spd blames ruthless capitalists; party chairman Franz Müntefering accused foreign investors of stripping assets and ignoring the human cost in jobs and livelihoods (see sidebar). North Rhine-Westphalia's spd governor Peer Steinbrück joined the chorus during a debate with his rival, cdu candidate Jürgen Rüttgers: "I expect companies that are making record profits to create jobs." But locals blame the spd. When Müntefering addressed around 1,000 Duisburg workers on May Day, they pelted him with eggs...