RE: Size and Growth

["Diepenbrock, Chloe" <diepenbrock@cl.uh.edu>]

Ann--we have approximately 7000 students and our center is open 43 hours
a week:	Monday 10-10	T-TH 10-7	Friday 10-2
I have twelve peer tutors on staff and two part time receptionists.
Chloe Diepenbrock
University of Houston-Clear Lake

> ----------
> From: 	Karl Fornes[SMTP:karlf@usca.usca.sc.edu]
> Reply To: 	wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, October 12, 1998 4:04 PM
> To: 	diepenbrock@uhcl.cl.uh.edu; nelson@uhcl.cl.uh.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Size and Growth
> 
> Hi Ann--
> 
> We have about 4,000 students (just under half of them are part-time
> students) and the Writing Room is open 55 hours per week. From
> Computer
> Services' perspective we are an "open student computer lab," and the
> fifteen computers we have get quite a bit of use when we are not
> consulting.
> 
> karl
> 
> 
> 
> >Hi!  I'm new to the list, and I wanted to consult you all.  I'm in my
> first
> >year at a small to medium sized university (3,100 day students, plus
> >another 900 or so in the evening college), and I'm starting the
> Writing
> >Center.  They've given me a great space for the Center, and
> initially, a
> >tiny budget.  Right now we're open about 18 hours per week and
> providing
> >about 45 hours of total tutoring (paid for mostly in credits).  While
> I
> >know that each center is unique, I'm curious about how much time more
> >established centers at equivalent size universities are open.  How
> much are
> >you all open relative to the size of your universities?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Ann
> >
> >Ann E. Green
> >English Dept.
> >St. Joseph's University
> >5600 City Line Ave.
> >Philadelphia, PA  19083
> >610-660-1889
> 
> 
> Karl Fornes, Director
> USC Aiken Writing Room
> University of South Carolina Aiken
> 171 University Parkway
> Aiken, SC 29801
> karlf@aiken.sc.edu
> 
> Office: (803) 648-6851 ext 3706
> Writing Room: (803) 648-6851 ext 3262
> 
> Check out the On-line Writing Room at:
> http://www.usca.sc.edu/uscaonlinewr/olwr.html
> 
>