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...discussion of top priorities within the College must focus foremost on academics. Currently, the dearth of meaningful student-faculty interaction is the most pressing concern within this sphere. For example, there are simply not enough teaching resources available to provide each first-year student with a meaningful small-group instructional setting through the Freshman Seminar program. Instead, the least experienced students among us are frequently plunged into giant, anonymous, inflexible lecture courses within the Core Program. Even the academic departments do not always provide respite from this disconnectedness. Too often, students do not have departmental faculty advisors to help shape...
Faculty members will meet tomorrow to discuss a plan to expand the Freshman Seminar program in order to give more first-year students the opportunity for small-group instruction with Faculty members...
...concern is whether freshmen are in small-group instruction experiences with Faculty," Pedersen said...
...instance, while Pedersen said she would like freshman seminar offerings to expand to even more areas beyond the humanities, she said some innovation is needed to conceive of small-group instructional experiences within the sciences...
...said she is hopeful that more first-years will reap the benefits of small-group instruction in years to come...