Re: Percentage of students using writing centers

[jarzt@mercy.sjc.edu (Judy Arzt)]

We see about 45% of our student population, including graduate students.
About half of this percentage has more than two appointments a year, and
about 10 % of our population has at least 12 appointments a year.  If
graduate students were taken out of the count, we see about 75 % of the
student population a year for at least one appointment, and about 50 % for
two or more appointments.  We do produce annual reports that report the
number of students who use the center per year.  Our center does all kinds
of tutoring, though most of the tutoring is for writing.



>Writing Center Folks,
>
>I'm trying to get a handle on what percentage of our student body I 
>can reasonably expect to use our (somewhat new) writing center.  From 
>my point of view, any usage short of, say, 99% can be improved.  But 
>I'd like to know what others who've compiled figures on percentage of 
>usage have found.
>
>Don Perkins
>Cottey College Writing Center
>dperkins@cottey.edu
>
Judy Arzt
Director of Academic Resources Center
Saint Joseph College
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut 06117
(860) 23204571, ext. 514