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Wright State University (WSU) sees fewer students per advisor this semester despite a lower number of advisors this year compared to previous years overall.
WSU advising staff
WSU saw a decline in enrollment in recent years which lowered the students to advisor ratio according to Tim Littell, associate vice provost of student success.
There are five student success suites at WSU that represent each of the five colleges. This is down from seven in previous years according to Littell.
“As enrollments have declined in recent years, we collapsed the number of student success suits from seven to five which reduced some of our administrative overhead and our overall advising staff by only one position in the last two years,” Littell said.
Littell stated that there are four vacancies across the five suites. There are roughly 375 students to one advisor.
“As the university continues to strive toward viable and sustainable enrollments, we remain focused on direct service to our students,” Littell said.
Advising staff/enrollment at other universities
Other Ohio universities have seen different data on enrollment for 2021. Miami University reported 16,917 undergraduate students in 2021 compared to 15,644 in 2014. The university stated that they changed their advising system and do not have data on their advising staff.
The University of Dayton stated they could not provide data on advising staff due to a different model used for advising. The university has a focus of 1-to-1 attention from advisors and has 475 total advisors according to their advising website.
The Wright State Guardian reached out to Ohio University, but they did not provide a response.
