Difference between revisions of "Random Faculty Assignment"

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Random Assignment by class standing. Faculty would be assigned students of the same level
and would follow through their career. Students grouped by lower and upper division.

Pros

• Encourages broad liberal arts and interdisciplinary advising conversations and content
• Common experience for students to meet other students across the curriculum who are at the same
• moment in their UG trajectory.
• Least administrative overhead
• Potential to allow for team coordination by faculty advisors who are working with different levels of
• advisees
• Frees faculty and students from presumptions about the advisor/advisee relationship
• Does the most to remove inequity from the process
• A great way to have students interact with disciplines they previously have not encountered

Cons

• Structurally doesn’t allow peer mentorship across levels within advising seminars
• Faculty anxiety around advising students whose interest fall outside of their areas of expertise
• Students’ anxiety around not being with faculty whose areas of expertise matches their areas of study.