Word: proctoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selects 25 proctors from approximately 115 applicants each year. Despite efforts at publicity, however, the applicant pool has not grown in the last few years. Ellen Porter, former senior adviser and now a proctor, surmises that shrinking Graduate School of Arts and Sciences enrollment, coupled with an increasing reluctance on the part of graduate students to devote private time to proctoring, is responsible for the limited number of candidates...
...important that a proctor be seen as a source of stability and sanity. He must be trusted," Moses says. "A good proctor has to be a nurturer--though I hate the term. He is not a neutral resource." Many students, however, feel that proctors are best seen as a neutral resource. "My proctor was stoned all the time, and he dealt drugs. But he had a moral code--he wouldn't deal to any of his proctees," one sophomore recalls. Another says, "Our proctor got engaged in the middle of the year--after that, she wasn't worth dealing with...
...best a proctor can do when faced with a situation he can't handle, FDO administrators admit, is refer a student to a support service, or to a higher authority such as a senior adviser. "If there's ever a question, the FDO is here with the answers," Moses says...
Moses points out the difficulty a proctor faces when confronted with the job. "It's a conflicting role--he has to be a neighbor, a friend, a representative of the University, a keeper of order and an adviser." The office prepares proctors and advisers for these duties in two half-day sessions, where they are blitzed with information. But Porter says a new proctor or adviser will not be able to offer adequate counseling if he chooses to depend only on the information provided by the FDO. "If a proctor supplements the initiative with his own initiative, it is definitely...
...although there may be a tendency to blandly accept a proctor or adviser's suggestions, Porter says, "Very rarely is a proctor's advice considered gospel...