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...program is intended to match freshmen with an upperclassman for advising on academic, extracurricular, and residential matters. Students were initially upset when the new advising system was first introduced last spring as a replacement to the popular prefect program...
...Hall, Mancall—the resident dean of Ivy Yard for the past six years—will focus on first-year advising and oversee the peer advising program. Established this spring, the program was designed to “replace and augment” the 20-year-old Prefect Program as a part of the College’s comprehensive curricular review. Mancall’s advising role will also extend to advanced standing, visiting, and transfer students, Gross said. “The new position will allow me to consider first-year advising issues more globally...
...applicants, and she attended a dinner at Fenway Park’s EMC Club last month for fellows, according to several attendees. The fellows will reach out to freshmen over the summer and on move-in day, and they will assume some of the responsibilities of the former Prefect Program. In the meantime, Viswanathan has her internship to keep her busy.“I am happy to confirm that Kaavya will be working with the 85 Broads team in Greenwich, CT. on a number of exciting projects,” Janet Hanson, the founder of 85 Broads, writes...
...ever associate dean of academic advising.On Feb. 27, she arrived here to spearhead the much-heralded overhaul of the College’s advising system. But her honeymoon was short.On her sixth day at the new job, Rinere met with the board of the 20-year-old, undergraduate-run Prefect Program and told them they would be “morphed” into a peer advising system. It would be a Kafkaesque metamorphosis—that is to say, an involuntary one.Rinere invited the prefect officers to serve on a new Student Advisory Board (SAB), but they were...
...improve pedagogy, emphasizing the role of course evaluations. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also recommended appointing a dean to oversee a new Office of Advising (which the College has been quick to do—naming Monique Rinere to the post last December) and the transformation of the Prefect program into a peer advising program for upperclassmen to advise freshmen. Other committees’ recommendations included expanding financial aid for summer study abroad programs and creating more integrative, introductory science courses in the life and physical sciences. We wholeheartedly endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals...