Word: peering
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...students receiving significant financial aid packages and other first-generation students. This transition program would offer classes on study skills and ways of navigating Harvard—from receiving financial aid to communicating with professors to balancing work and school. The program would also offer socialization conversations and peer support provided by students from underprivileged backgrounds. Each following year, these students would return for shorter programs that explore traversing several worlds, finding work after college, and ways to give back to their communities...
...Expand academic, peer, and counseling support: Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel would expand its wide array of counseling, workshops, discussions groups, and courses to address the needs of first-generation and low-income college goers. It would train its tutors, group leaders, and peer counselors about the unique academic, socio-economic, and institutional challenges the underrepresented students may experience...
...when introducing Al Gore at Harvard’s Sustainability Celebration, President Drew G. Faust asserted, “Universities are the world’s greatest source of ideas and innovation.” Theoretically, ideas generated by university scholars are disciplined by the scientific method, vetted by peer review, and made accountable through open publication with clear authorship. Talk radio, the blogosphere, and even The New Yorker operate by a lower standard...
...What truly affected the clubs was the change in the drinking age from 18, then 19, to 21. The campus society craved places where students could socialize and drink and through sheer peer pressure, forced the clubs to open their doors and serve as venues for the broader campus community,” Saxe said...
Tenure at Harvard requires, above all else, copious publication. The peer-review process in scholarly journals and university presses subjects one’s work to harsh criticism by one’s intellectual rivals and demands punctilious caution in the handling of evidence and logic. The best way to guarantee success is to choose a specialty where mastering the entire literature is feasible and where one has few rivals. Such pursuit of expertise can generate finely tuned knowledge, but it can also generate territorialism and stifle debate. For example, another faculty resident in Leverett House in 1997-98 (when...