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Jesse L. Maki ’04, a first-year proctor in Stoughton and student at Harvard Medical School, says that faculty advisers??if dedicated to their job—could be “an amazing resource” for students...
There are currently 250 non-residential freshman advisers??including some 30 junior and senior faculty members—each of whom advise about two or three first-years apiece...
Most students want advising to lean more towards support. “Academic advising treats [advisers??] role as ‘okay, what classes should you be taking,’” says Barbara J. Eghan ’05, a history and literature concentrator, who dubs study card advising as a “kiss-off at the beginning of the semester...
...faculty will make better advisers than proctors or resident tutors. Indeed, many faculty members don’t know much about undergraduate education beyond the scope of their departments. Instead of faculty involvement, the key to better advising, regardless of who does it, is extensive training and support for advisers??something the committee has already recommended...
...best solution to advising overall would be a multi-tiered advising system that includes faculty, tutors and proctors, concentration advisers and peer advisers. With multiple levels of redundancy, students could pick which person they want to get advice from based on their advisers?? specialties and commitments. With this possibility in mind, we are particularly interested in the committee’s proposal to add a peer advising system, particularly for freshmen. However, we fear that recruiting advisers and making sure they pay attention to advisees on top of each student’s heavy workload will be difficult...