Deans plan advising reforms for Class of '12
By STEVE KOLOWICH, ORIENT STAFFA year and a half after a reaccreditation team identified academic advising one of Bowdoin's weak spots, the College will report its plans to improve pre-major academic advising to the Board of Trustees next weekend. The report will mark the culmination of an initiative that began last September and has involved a number of meetings with students and faculty as well as an advising survey of current first years.
?Breach? investigation continues
By JOSHUA MILLER, ORIENT STAFFThree weeks after Bowdoin acknowledged a "possible breach of data security" in which student Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and internal employee reviews were left accessible to anyone with a Bowdoin username, the College remains mum on what happened. "The lawyers are advising us that until we know everything, the information we give out isn't necessarily the truth and so, what we're going to do is?and we promise we'll release everything?to finish the investigation, because it's not done yet," Chief Information Officer (CIO) Mitch Davis said.
Pemper departs for Div. I Naval Academy
By MARY HELEN MILLER, ORIENT STAFFAfter an extraordinarily successful 10 years at Bowdoin, Associate Athletic Director and Head Women's Basketball Coach Stefanie Pemper announced on Tuesday that she will leave Bowdoin for the position of Head Women's Basketball Coach at the U.S. Naval Academy. Assistant Coach Julie Veilleux will accompany Pemper to coach the Division I program in Annapolis, Maryland. Pemper said that she expects to move sometime in the next two weeks.
Registration bumps some from first-choice courses
By ANNE RILEY, ORIENT STAFFIn past semesters, most classes with fewer than five enrolled students have been canceled for not having met minimum enrollment requirements. However, instead of canceling low enrollment courses this year, the College has aimed to fill those courses during Phase I by pulling students out of their first-choice courses?even if those classes are not yet full?and placing them in their low-enrollment, second-choice courses. According to Dean of Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd, some 20 students were affected by this minimum enrollment policy during this week's course registration process.
