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...program is exciting because it promises to fill the long-standing void in the first year experience created by ineffective and inconsistent advising. At present, most freshmen hear nary a peep from their advisers until move in week, at which point they are consigned to a single adviser—an overburdened freshman proctor or a distant and often inaccessible faculty member—with whom they briefly interact before drifting off into the rest of freshman year. Amazingly, the result has been good for many, in spite of the system. Now the new program will make it possible...
After applications are reviewed and candidates selected, Peer Advising Fellows will be assigned to first-year dormitories, or, in the case of smaller residences, to groups of small dormitories. Each adviser will then be matched with individual freshmen who share their interests—academic, extracurricular, and social—within the dormitory. Together they will form a group of some 8-10 advisees, who will meet both together and individually throughout the year to navigate the Harvard’s challenges...
Fellows will then be assigned a second time within the dormitory, to an individual entryway in which they’ll work closely with a proctor and two or three other Fellows to coordinate regular entryway social events, like study breaks and Sunday brunch outings. To one group of freshmen then, a Peer Advising Fellow will be the person with whom they’ll meet regularly to formally discuss academic issues. To another, the Fellow will be a social presence and an informal conduit to student life at Harvard...
...program will exceed both the current first-year advising system and the Prefect Program in its structure and thoroughness. A given month will comprise a well-ordered set of events, geared at bringing together freshmen who share interests. One week would hold an informal meeting of a peer advising group, where first-years would be able to benefit from each others’ questions and experiences, and the insight of their shared peer adviser. An entryway study break would take place another week, and Peer Advising Fellows would attend their assigned entryways to mingle and answer questions...
Fellows would also profit from close interactions with the faculty members with whom they would work in advising groups of freshmen, as efforts to recruit ever-greater numbers of faculty to work as first-year advisers continue. At a college where the remoteness of faculty is a common complaint, creating opportunities for student-faculty contact into a new advising program stands to make a great contribution to the lives of both freshmen and the upperclassmen who advise them...