Information For First-Year Students

What to expect of your partnership with your Meiklejohn and faculty/staff advisor
A Meiklejohn Advisor is a peer advisor who focuses on academic issues with a group of first-year students. A Meiklejohn is paired with an Academic Advisor, and together they serve as advisors for a group of first-year advisees. The Meiklejohn Advisor, Academic Advisor and you, the first year student, develop the beginning stage of an Advising Partnership, a collaboration of many individuals and offices aimed at building a responsive, individual curriculum for each undergraduate student at Brown.

Meiklejohns are carefully selected and trained. They provide a student perspective on the curriculum and often serve to broaden the knowledge of the curriculum that can be accessed by the first-year student by complementing the knowledge of the faculty academic advisor. The combination of the faculty advisor and student peer advisor has proved to be a powerful one. Each offers insights the other cannot. To make this work for you as an incoming freshman talk with your Meiklejohn advisor on a regular basis and get to know how they can help.

Information about your first meeting with your Meiklejohn
Your Meiklejohn may contact you and introduce themselves before you arrive on campus for Orientation. If not, you will meet him or her, together with your faculty/staff advisor and other students, on Tuesday, September 8th, at 9:30 a.m. Your Meiklejohn will contact you and let you know where you will meet. You will then meet individually with your Meiklejohn, your faculty/staff advisor, or both together on Tuesday, September 8th, sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. These meetings will cover course selection, changing courses, Brown's requirements and plan future advising meetings.