Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over one-third of the eligible students have accepted advanced standing this year, roughly the same number as have chosen the program in each of the past few years, according to figures released by the Office of Advanced Standing yesterday...
Twenty-five per cent or less of the students who have opted for the program--which allows students to begin Harvard as sophomores and requires that they meet all non-honors requirements in three years--will actually earn a three-year degree, Mack I. Davis II, director of Advanced Standing, said yesterday...
...Student-to-Student, Brown's version of Room 13, "aren't that heavily utilized" because of the misconception that "You've got to be pretty lonely" to use them. T. L. Hill, a junior at Brown and co-coordinator of Student-to-Student, adds that like Room 13, his program has a problem reaching upperclassmen, especially sophomores and juniors, who, unlike freshman and seniors, are not in the midst of a transition period...
...strengths of Brown's counseling program, its offerings for minorities, is a major weakness of peer counseling at Harvard. At Brown there is a live-in minority peer counselor in almost every dormitory and Bechtel says these students address the special needs of minority students. But at Harvard, Seigelman says, "A lot of minority students think Room 13 is not for them." For example, some members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association feel Room 13 counselors "can't counsel someone who's gay," he says...
Axtell, who's divorced and has two children, graduated from high school 12 years ago and is now going to college. And she has government grants and a work-study program to thank...