“This is really a new position, unifying the Houses and the Yard,” Gross said, adding that he wanted the training and organization of freshman proctors and residential tutors in Houses to come from the same place.

Today, the dean of freshmen reports to the Dean of the College.

Dingman, who has served as a freshman proctor and a senior tutor for both Leverett and Dudley Houses, will take part in appointments made through the FDO this spring. Assistant Deans of Freshmen James Mancall and Lesley Nye Barth said yesterday that they were pleased about his appointment.

A search for a new associate dean to replace Herschbach and run the College’s finances will begin immediately.

With her promotion, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is without two top financial officers. Cheryl Hoffman-Bray, the FAS associate dean for finance, shifted to an advisory position within FAS in September, and her position has not yet been filled.

—Joshua P. Rogers contributed to the reporting of this story.

—Staff writer Rebecca D. O’Brien can be reached at robrien@fas.harvard.edu.