Yes but this is the engineering school. It doesn’t talk about other schools or departments - where there are also advisors.
The good news is there are still advisors - will be 44 -we are forgetting that. My nephew is one at Arizona - the amount of people and layers they have is dizzying - who covers what. It’s not just by name.
Maybe this is just dumbing down the process.
Obviously it’s an expense thing. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Maybe they can offer kids concierge advising, like concierge doctors, for a fee.
In the end, the consumers will decide (ie students). I think my son’s major had two and it was large and he hit his semester appointment no issue ad they were always having open hrs (he never went) - so 44 may be plenty.
@blossom im not saying they are overstaffed. I’M saying we don’t know. We hear cuts and we jump to conclusions. For all we know there are underutilized. Everyone is making assumptions but no one knows the true status of- is the point.
Given the websites focus more on masters and PhD advising vs undergrad, I think this might be all and not simply undergrad.