Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are a lot of transfers who would like to help, but they don't because they do not want to spend their summers fighting with Harvard's Administration. This year, especially, there were many problems with the program. The Transfer Links coordinator was told in May that there would be housing provided for 13 volunteers. But in the middle of the summer, the Administration cancelled all housing. Dean of Students Archie Epps III explained that transfer students would only be on campus for five days without Transfer Links volunteers, and that the program would make do with students...
...effects of this change were obvious. While 15 to 20 students per year normally volunteer for Transfer Links, this year only three showed up for the first meeting...
Further, since upperclassmen had fewer days to move into the Houses than in previous years, there was little time to organize Transfer Links into a coherent orientation program...
...When my transfer class entered Harvard, there was someone in the Administration paid to answer our questions. Now there is only Thurston A. Smith who is extremely busy with his duties as director of student disability resource center, acting registrar and special assistant to the Dean of Harvard College...
Harvard is not a place that coddles its students, and transfers do not come here expecting excessive nurturing. But we do need to be shown the ropes better than we have been. If the Administration does not want to make transfer students feel welcome, it must let other students do so. Given the Administration's behavior, sometimes I wonder why Harvard admits transfers at all. Transfers could well be Harvard's most loyal advocates; they have experienced life at other colleges, but were so convinced of Harvard's merits that they were willing to give up everything they worked...