Univ. revamps frosh counseling program
Freshman counselors for the class of 2013 will absorb the duties of ethnic counselors — a position which will cease to exist beginning fall 2009 — Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced at a meeting of residential college deans Tuesday morning.
The move is the capstone of a sweeping agenda of reform aimed at improving the University’s diversity counseling network. The Dean’s Office also plans to create “peer liaison” positions — non-freshmen who will advise first-year students on issues of diversity and direct them to campus resources, such as the cultural houses. The shifts have...
