Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minds of College officials, this network of graduate students and other College employees as advisers set the Harvard freshman experience apart from those of other colleges, which often have upperclassmen living in freshman dorms acting as resident advisers...
...Academics Committee is trying to set up a system in which upperclassmen would attend all doom proctor meetings on academic advising to answer freshmen's questions. As Mr. Melamed agrees, upperclassmen would offer a valuable yet different perspective from proctors. In particular, upper-class advisors would be able to describe current courses and trends within many academic departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments the advisors do not know well. It is a needless waste of a resource not to employ...
...Princeton system, now in its first year of full operation, includes five residential colleges, each with its own support network of advisors. Unlike the Harvard Houses, Princeton's colleges house only freshmen and sophomores with a few upperclassmen advisers. While they borrowed the practice of assigning freshmen to a house from Yale, many of the other aspects of the Princeton system were modeled after Harvard, Katz says...
With still a few problems to iron out, such as the incorporation of upperclassmen, the Princeton system has been labelled a success. Citing increased acceptances of high students as evidence, Katz says, "This is the first year we've had equal splits with Yale in the number of students who decided to come. (The college system) has made us more competitive for the kind of students I want...
...points of the Council's proposed "solution" is to have "upperclassmen...attend all dorm proctor meetings to answer freshmen's questions." The advice and experience of upperclassmen are valuable resources for freshmen, but there is not reason to think that undergraduates can give better advice about any concentration except their own. The advising system here is supposed to foster independent thinking, encouraged by concerned guidance. The College hires older people as proctors and advisers for a reason: their experience makes them better qualified to be a student's first source of counsel...