“It also helps because students feel more comfortable talking to other students about their concerns,” PCC Gregory A. DiBella ‘12 added.
The creation of the PCC program last spring was part of a series of advising initiatives designed to bring advising resources closer to students. It adds to the department’s move, begun in 2006, towards a house-based advising system in which each house is assigned a resident and non-resident tutor.
The PCC program provides a direct network of peers for students to reach out to based on their own concentration and career plans.
“We try to kind of get a balanced group—men, women, people who are athletes, people who are intending to write a thesis, people who think they won’t write a thesis, and so on,” Welch said.
—Julia L. Ryan contributed to the reporting of this story.
—Staff writer Kevin J. Wu can be reached at kwu@college.harvard.edu.