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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I was talking about our meeting about academic advising for the students to come up with their new subjects to enroll in for the next term.

Second to the last in the list of suggestions that I gave the group is the following:
6. Students of different majors may be given specific days on which to advise at the end of the term so that advisers do not have to be in school the whole week.

This goes hand in hand with the new rule that students can only approach specific teachers for their advising, instead of any of the advisers who might be present. It is only in this way that we can ensure that other teachers are not used to override the restrictions that the original advisers have put on the enrollment students of their specialization.

Another plus of this procedure is that the adviser gets to mark and oversee the entire progress of the student through his or her course for the entirety of their stay in college. Only then can everyone be assured that the student’s completion of his studies is monitored closely.

This also means that a specific and even number of students will then be assigned to each adviser.

The last of the my ideas presented was:
7. Students should not be allowed to drop subjects unless there is (a) conflict (b) no vacant period for up to 5 hours straight.

This is to prevent students from choosing who they prefer between two or more teachers handling the same subject, and dropping the one they don’t like. Same is true with dropping a subject (usually a minor one) where they don’t have any of their friends as their classmates.

Of course, if it comes down to financial difficulties as the reason for wanting to minimize the number of units taken for the term, we would be asking for a letter from the parents, but we won’t be telling them that until the need arises.

We also have no foolproof solution to what Sir Joel calls auditing, where the student sits in during the first week of classes then decides which teacher and section he or she is going to add. It entirely bypasses the dropping strangle gate though.

It is only the adding and dropping festival that we want to reduce anyway, of which the Registrar’s office said there was more than an inch of compiled documentation (such a waste of paper) at the start of this term.

I will have to consider session 646 filed and stored at this point. Class dismissed.