Advising week is upon us. Across campus, students are meeting with their advisers to plan the next phase of their college careers: class schedules for next semester.

Marquette professors do an incredible job advising their students. Of course, there is the occasional professor who makes it no secret he or she would rather not advise students, but most advisers get to know their advisees and are incredibly helpful. The numbers alone are in our favor — Marquette's student-to-faculty ratio is 15:1. At University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the statistic is 33:1.

That being said, there are always ways to streamline the advising process — especially when it comes to class registration — and we have a proposal.

More and more students are choosing to double major in order to get the most out of their academic experience at Marquette. Pairing certain majors together diversifies a student's resume and can be attractive to employers. Combinations could include pairings of advertising, marketing, business, public relations, journalism, English, political science and history, or many majors with a foreign language.

When seeking majors in different colleges, students are assigned two advisers and must do a fair amount of coordination between colleges and advisers. Standards, requirements and class availability change at a rapid pace, and students and advisers find it difficult to keep up.

We propose colleges with the most double-majors assign faculty to advise students straddling colleges.

Student with majors in different colleges would be more easily served if they only had to visit one adviser before setting up the next semester's class schedule. When it comes to career and post-graduation advice, it's important for students to speak with professionals in both their chosen fields. But when registering for classes, students are put under undue amounts of stress as they try to navigate requirements for the university, multiple colleges and more than one major. Having an adviser who understands the requirements for majors in both the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Communication, for example, would be invaluable to students with majors in each college. Under the current system, each adviser doesn't understand the requirements his or her student faces in the other college. That means students take it upon themselves to navigate the minefields of waiving classes, using high school credits and organizing which classes count for major credits in more than one college.

We are not advocating students shirk personal responsibility for their chosen paths to graduation, rather we are suggesting double-major students would be best assisted if they had an adviser who could easily go to bat for them in either college.

Most advisers already take it upon themselves to assist students in any way they can. But when it comes to registering for classes, a one-adviser system would be better organized and more streamlined.