{"id":511,"date":"2003-10-20T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/10\/20\/college-reforms-advising-career-ac"},"modified":"2003-10-20T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2003-10-21T00:41:27","slug":"college-reforms-advising-career-academic-spiritual-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/10\/20\/college-reforms-advising-career-academic-spiritual-other\/","title":{"rendered":"College Reforms: Advising: Career, Academic, Spiritual, Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a292'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are few good metrics for how well-developed one&#8217;s <b>academic<\/b>, physical, <b>spiritual<\/b>, or <b>career<\/b> plans are.  At least, according to university educators at large, and those at <a href=\"http:\/\/college.harvard.edu\">Harvard<\/a> in particular.  <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, career and life counselors the world over have developed their own idiosyncratic collections of metrics, many quite elaborate and detailed.  Some may be better than others, but all are better than none &#8212; and most are better than that lone career-office standby, the Myers-Briggs test.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at how<\/a> Harvard <b>counsels<\/b> its undergraduates in various facets of life&#8230; <font size=\"-2\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/Harvard_Guidance\">read more<\/a>]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few good metrics for how well-developed one&#8217;s academic, physical, spiritual, or career plans are. At least, according to university educators at large, and those at Harvard in particular. On the other hand, career and life counselors the world over have developed their own idiosyncratic collections of metrics, many quite elaborate and detailed. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}