Word: peers
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Clark also suggested that administrative intervention is necessary. He said the dean should require outside peer review of tenure candidates, as is done in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and should lessen the power of individual professors to choose their own colleagues...
When Room 13 was founded, it was the only peer counseling organization on campus. Today, there are five, including Contact, Response, Peer Contraceptive Counseling, and the Eating Problems Outreach program...
...Peer counseling offers] an increased sensitivity because many of the counselors are living through similar life circumstances and hence can be emphatic in ways that professional counselors can't," says Robert R. Read, a Room 13 supervisor and a counselor for the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Whenever you're doing peer counseling, just by definition you're learning more about yourself," says Postolos. "When I go down there, I put my life aside. I focus on other people and listen to them. It's helped me see beyond differences in people." When you listen to someone very different from you, from a different socio-economic group, race, or country perhaps, Postolos says, "you can really accept and, in a very limited sense, begin to understand what part of that person's life is like...
...fact remains than in at least two instances this term a College-supported peer advising program has turned into a quasi-dating service. Discussing the incidents with participants has revealed the proper area for concern: the College, many prefects agree, hasn't shown a very profound understanding of what kind of training is needed to turn peers into peer advisers...