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...match incoming freshmen with upperclass advisers will be expanded next year to include most members of the freshman class.” Obviously, needed reform takes a long time at Harvard. But we hope that it doesn’t take decades for the Harvard College Curricular Review report??s recent recommendations on improving advising at Harvard to take effect...
...report??s recommendation to increase faculty-student contact is laudable. The report advocates major changes in the way faculty approach advising, calling on them to think of advising as something on par with “a major committee assignment.” Indeed, the culture of advising must change. Harvard purports to offer a world-class education to its students; world-class advising should be part of the package. Individual concentration advisers and student-faculty dinners, two of the report??s proposals, are both steps in the right direction, serving to personalize what...
...proposed central advising office is also a good idea, and it will be particularly important if the College follows through on the report??s suggestion to shift the concentration decision deadline to the fall term of sophomore year. As acknowledged by the report, however, the advising center should only be used in a back-up capacity for general curricular advice and should not take the place of direct faculty involvement in pre-concentration advising. Such a center will also need a dedicated, involved staff interested in speaking to students about individual curricular concerns, unlike the disappointing advising center...
Unfortunately, a key part of the report??s proposal for restructuring first-year advising will make the Yard a worse place to live. The report??s plan to switch to a Yale-like system—where first-years are arbitrarily assigned to Houses before arriving in Cambridge and forced to live in entryways with their future House-mates—will not help first-year advising, and it will undermine that sense of community which is the chief benefit of Yard life...
...concern with first-year advising that inspired the report??s plan is legitimate. But a few simple changes could do more to remedy this situation without hurting student life. First, Harvard should acknowledge that first-years often learn most from their peers. Instead of placing grad students and office workers—some of whom were never undergraduates at Harvard—in the first-year dorms, the College should use those prime proctor suites to house undergraduates who can help first-years cope with the difficulties that they so recently experienced. If the Yard had one proctor...