Word: peering
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Harvard offers a plethora of resources, from peer counseling to professional services, tutors to resident deans, but we, the undergraduates, undermine their efforts. Too often, we focus on the negative aspects of Harvard’s mental health system, spreading nightmare stories about clinicians who prescribe medicine in five minutes and forced medical leave for merely mentioning depression. Do any of these urban legends sound familiar...
...communicating their availability. It does not matter how effective our clinicians are if students do not know how to meet with them. Although over 90 percent of students reported that they knew about Mental Health Services at UHS, the Office of Sexual Assault, Prevention, and Response (OSAPR), and peer counseling, fewer than two-thirds had heard of the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC). Harvard also needs a website with health and safety information, and contact information posted in every student dorm room for all of its mental health resources—information has to be present when and where students...
Indeed, Harvard’s peer institutions have already recognized and embraced the potential of this type of learning. The University of Pennsylvania boasts 46 academic courses in 19 different departments that integrate classroom experience with work in the neighborhoods of West Philadelphia. Other Ivies also have strong community-based learning programs, which have flourished, in large measure, because they support professors in developing curricula that integrate activity-based work with classroom learning. Activity-based components are not merely tacked onto courses as an afterthought, as the latest model proposed by Harvard’s Task Force on General Education...
...other words, compared to its peer institutions, Harvard has a modestly higher percentage of social science professors—and a vastly higher percentage of social science majors...
Knowles writes that he does “not mean to suggest that we should blithely or blindly follow trends elsewhere.” But if Harvard follows Knowles’ plan, we will be doing exactly that. The plan will bring Harvard more in line with peer institutions—and further out of step with its own students’ needs...