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...promises to fill the long-standing void in the first year experience created by ineffective and inconsistent advising. At present, most freshmen hear nary a peep from their advisers until move in week, at which point they are consigned to a single adviser—an overburdened freshman proctor or a distant and often inaccessible faculty member—with whom they briefly interact before drifting off into the rest of freshman year. Amazingly, the result has been good for many, in spite of the system. Now the new program will make it possible for freshmen to receive solid advising...
Fellows will then be assigned a second time within the dormitory, to an individual entryway in which they’ll work closely with a proctor and two or three other Fellows to coordinate regular entryway social events, like study breaks and Sunday brunch outings. To one group of freshmen then, a Peer Advising Fellow will be the person with whom they’ll meet regularly to formally discuss academic issues. To another, the Fellow will be a social presence and an informal conduit to student life at Harvard...
...pool of 80 to 150 students in a “single larger dorm or group of smaller dorms,” according to the APO website. Fellows will be “assigned across entryways and in some cases across dorms,” said Lindsay C. Page, proctor adviser to the Prefect Program and a member of SAB’s Peer Advising Committee. Peer advisers will be assigned advisees based on broad academic interests, Rinere said in the press release. Peer advisers would be expected to meet their advisee group weekly and to offer extracurricular, academic...
...mail also addresses the social difficulties of some students overseen by the proctor, especially those hailing from foreign cultures...
...concerns about someone coming who you really wanted but it might be a stretch, [admissions officers] might ask, ‘how are things going? Why are things working–whether it was a good adviser or seasoned proctor or rooming,” Dingman says. “Admissions can tuck it away and say when we advise for the next round, this is something we should be alerting [advisers...