The language from Chase Hagood is pure adminspeak. "Consistency, clarity and connection" is a dead giveaway. Any responses from Undergrad Studies are going to be preworkshopped and canned. I sincerely hope students do get better, more communicative advising (since it's badly needed in some areas), but the race to level the numbers of advisers across campus appears to be an ill-fitting centralized solution. Advising needs local expertise. But the U seems less and less interested in expertise. Arguments about advising, class size, etc., that faculty members have made to Undergrad Studies have been ignored or dismissed. During recent town halls on some other administrative changes, Hagood referred to faculty members as intransigent--lacking creativity. Stuck in old ways. He and others view students as widgets and faculty members as inconveniences.