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...head of the FDO—which is in charge of hiring proctors and is responsible for first-year advising—says that this year’s mid-year survey found that some people do not even use their advisers...
...this week, administrators in University Hall are likely to have finished preparing this year’s “senior survey,” an approximately 30-minute long questionnaire given to all students graduating from Harvard College. By May, the survey will be available online for seniors to complete, a requirement before they can pick up their Commencement tickets. At some point, almost all members of the Class of 2004 will evaluate their experiences at Harvard, answering questions like “What is your level of satisfaction with your House...
...information gathered in the results of the survey is exceptionally valuable for determining how the College can improve the experiences of its students. Part of the survey remains the same each year to allow for cross-year comparisons and part changes depending on the desired focus for the year. With the curricular review in progress, the survey given to the Class of 2003 asked 40 of its 72 questions about the academic experience at the college. But while discussions rage about how the College’s academic program can be improved, most of the results of these survey questions...
Some of the survey findings have been released publicly and other data is shared internally, according to Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz. “We do share relevant results with the Houses and the concentrations and other offices, and they find them very helpful as they review programs and policies,” Wolcowitz wrote in an e-mail...
...while internal discussion of survey results in no doubt valuable, the release of the survey data can further encourage change by adding the incentive of public accountability. The slivers of data that have been publicly released in the past, including data on academic advising broken down by department, have helped to spark improvements. After releasing selected advising data from the senior surveys of 1997 and 1999, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 identified five large departments that had improved their overall advising satisfaction scores by at least a quarter point on the five-point...