Word: peering
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...efforts have been at the cutting edge in this regard: from the establishment of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services in recent years to the online alcohol education course for incoming freshmen called AlcoholEdu, to the group of student-leaders known as Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors. Of course, some of the more draconian and less supportive measures University Hall has instituted were considerably less successful—take the College’s currently contradictory amnesty and student-group-leader responsibility policies. Nevertheless, banning hard alcohol seems to jibe with Harvard’s commitment to safe...
Harvard has once again vaulted ahead of its peers in eliminating socioeconomic barriers to attending college. This time, the University made three different improvements that totaled to a $22 million per year increase in Harvard College’s financial aid budget. The headliner was a vast increase in aid to middle and upper-middle class students. But just as important are Harvard’s termination of loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between...
...Over the last eight months, Blake, with the help of his staff of about 25, has been developing what he calls peer-to-peer contacts. Veterans call veterans, high school students call high school students and so forth. Seven staffers reach out to black voters, for example, and three handle Latino voters - even though Latinos make up only 3% of Iowa's population of three million and there are only 67,000 blacks in the whole state, according to the 2006 census. "[This] is exactly why it's a problem for the Clinton campaign to bring in 100 new staffers...
...hours to style it for competition—and her skin shimmers with glitter spray, glitter powder, and roll-on body glitter. Of course, glitter isn’t her whole life. She’s also a member of the ballroom dance team, a Drug and Alcohol Peer Adviser, and a member of Phillips Brooks House’s Chinatown Afterschool Program. She recently declared a concentration in Biological Anthropology.But here in Mather Dining Hall, in between bites of mixed greens and red chili hummus, Liles is all twirler. She performs her signature move. It is called the layback...
...sure, the first-year advising program faces challenges. With 685 advisers (438 non-resident advisers, 51 percent of whom are faculty plus 62 proctors and 185 peer advisers) and 1,675 students (not to mention 44 concentrations and well over a hundred advisers in the concentrations), making the right academic choices can seem confusing or overwhelming at times, and navigating the curriculum can be complicated. We do see areas for improvement in first-year advising. But freshmen surveys, focus groups, conversations with students, their parents and alumni over the last couple of years indicate that there is a growing satisfaction...