Working Thesis
1) Problem (describe it)
Shortage of student advisors in CSULB-nearly, every faculty in the University, has been assigned a single mentor despite increasing student challenges both socially and academically. A large number of students also make this allocation a shortage since they can hardly keep up with the increasing number of students who rely on the mentorship programs and other advisory services to shape their future. It is important for an appropriate number of advisors that can serve the student fraternity.
2) Cause or effect
Insensitivity towards the mentorship programs- the student welfare is apparently insensitive to the role of mentorship in students and the need to have as many advisors as possible. Therefore, they have not made the right calls for the additions. The laxity in students’ defendants has created laxity of the administration thus allowing them only to assign only single advisor per faculty.
3) Cause or effect
Increased academic challenges-it has created increased dependency on advisory services as a way to find guidelines on how to overcome the challenges. It means that the assigned number can no longer handle the increasing numbers sufficiently thus creating the shortage. Therefore, the number should be increased to accommodate the shifting dependency.
4) Cause or effect
The impact of the shortage has been developing of incoherent policies that tend to are not student-oriented due to lack of proper policy development participation. As a result, students remain to crave for sufficient mentorship from the already overburdened mentors. It creates the culture low-capacity inputs.
5) Cause or effect
Another effect of the shortage is students opting to live with their problems since they cannot easily access the mentors due to many people seeking the same service from a single individual who in their capacity cannot serve them efficiently due to overwork.
6) Recommendations
- The students’ management should increase the number of mentors to a reason student ratio.
- Students’ welfare should advocate for additional mentors to fill sufficiently the edging gap.
- The university management should review its mentorship program to find if the available mentors can serve the students adequately.
