Each year, I am the academic adviser for between 60 and 80 undergraduate students in the EEC department. I believe one problem about the workload in the EEC department is due to the number of undergraduate student advisees that are assigned to each EEC faculty member. EEC faculty members do not have any release time to accommodate this number of advisees. No other department in the College of Education has an advising load even close to that of EEC faculty members. In fact, several departments primarily have graduate programs (CSP, Ed Leadership, Spec Ed) and do not have undergraduate advising loads. My understanding is that the students in KSP are advised in departments related to their content specialty (e.g., biology), and not in KSP.
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