Encourage the use of available funding for informal interaction between faculty advisors and students. Provide tangible incentives for faculty participation. Assign an Assistant Dean within the advising office whose sole responsibility will be to expand, supervise and coordinate all activities involved with the faculty advising system. All professors serve as advisors. Each faculty member advising approximately 13-14 students.
Faculty participate in seminars pertaining to advising.
Create a student feedback system. Expand the Advising Seminars to include all faculty members. The Wharton School Faculty play no formal role in Wharton's New Student Advising Program. Encourage faculty who are interested to offer one or two hours a week of walk-in appointments for advising. The Nursing School, based in part on its small community, does a better job than most Schools at meeting the advising needs of its students.