June 13, 1944

To the College Committee on Program and Curriculum:

The Sub«Committee on Advising believes. that although in a very real sense
every member of the faoulty is a counsellor, there is a need for an
advisory program to provide individual counsel for every students The
committee believes that our present program can be made more effective
by centering the freshman-s ophomore advising in the hands of a relatively
small number of well-qualified advisers who will continuously study
advising problems and attempt to become guidance expertse More reoords
should be kept of students' backgrounds and of their experience in the
University, and these records should be in a form that will make them
readily available for every interview between student and adviser and
for every conference in the Dean's offices. Advisers should have more
Snformation at hand for use in educational and vocational guidances

The committee submits the following recommendations:

(1) That more infermation be seoured frem high schsols and from
entering students regarding students' backgrounds, interests,
abilities, and aspirations, the conditions under which they
will be studying at the University, and other factors that
might be useful in guiding students into suitable programs heres

(2) Continuation of the policy of administering a battery of tests
to entering students to obtain information fae the placing of
students in courses at their first enrollment and for sub-
sequent guidance worke

(3) That the number of freshman-s ophomere faculty advisers be
reduced so that the number of students under the supervision
of each adviser is between forty and fifty.

(4) That the administration recognize that the advising work of
these faculty members is a part of their regular assignment
by making some reduction in their teaching loads.

(5) That meetings of the freshman-sophomore advisers be held from
time to time through the year for the consideration of ad-

vising problems e