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...voice inside rapidly began rehearsing a litany of soul-searching Carrie Bradshaw-like questions about the intended and unintended consequences of our collective curricular efforts. Is it true, as President Lowell once famously declared, that Harvard freshmen “bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years”? Do we, as faculty, perceive the “spark of creativity” in the students who arrive here, then proceed to “water” it, as he is reputed to have declared at Commencement? Is education...
...because I couldn’t eat with the guys in Adams House and didn’t have time to go back to my dorm,” Greenhouse, who lived in North House—now Pforzheimer—writes in an e-mail.She was one of three freshmen to be elected to The Crimson in 1964. She later rose to be the paper’s features editor and the editor of the Confidential Guide, a review of courses published by The Crimson. But she was unable to gain admission to the Signet, the arts and letters society...
...is.During the summer, Viswanathan will be working at 85 Broads, a network founded in 1999 for female Goldman Sachs employees. The organization has since expanded to reach out to women attending business school and college. And when she returns to school in the fall, she will be interacting with freshmen as a peer advising fellow. Viswanathan was selected as one of about 190 fellows out of nearly 500 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...
...amount which she acted on student recommendations,” he says.Still, even with the prefects signing onto the peer-advising system, Rinere’s trials were not over yet.SELECTION BIAS?Rinere and the SAB launched a Peer Advising Fellowship program, which will match upperclassman fellows with 10 freshmen each based on shared academic interests.The fellows will assume the Prefect Program’s function of fostering entryway camaraderie. Each fellow will be assigned to a specific entryway and will organize its events.But unlike prefects, who volunteered their time, the peer-advising fellows will make $1,000 a year...
...Many others allow parties to go until 2 a.m. House masters and residential deans should not have the discretion to make House life worse in some places than in others.6. First-Year Advising. The Peer Advising Fellow system recently put in place will make academic advising for freshmen much better next year. The next step is to redefine the roles of proctors and faculty members in the world of freshman advising. Proctors should sign study cards, plans of study, and so on for all students. Since much of the work they did in the past, such as helping students choose...