Thanks everyone for your responses to my query...I think Tim
makes a good point and it's something we struggled with in
terms of counting the number of students who use our
service. We used to only count students once, but realized
we were probably underestimating what we were doing. So a
student could have met with me indivually, attended a
worskhop given by another counselor, taken a math study
skills class, and worked in our lab and it would have only
counted as one! That seemed crazy to us, so now we count
the number of services a student uses. It would be nice if
there were a standard in the profession, but I don't think
this is something that we'd all be able to agree on! Happy
weekend everyone!
Marcy
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:31:14 -0400
>From: "Vick, Tim (Macon State College)"
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>Subject: Re: % of campus population using your services
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>This may be a weird question but . . .
>
>Are the numbers given by everyone unduplicated numbers? For
instance,
>the 10,000+ number given by Jim, is that 10,000+ unique,
unduplicated
>students each semester from a total enrollment of ~30,000?
If they use
>more than one service or if they use a service more than
once, are they
>still only counted once for the purpose of this statistic?
If so, when
>does the count start over -- each semester?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Tim?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals
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>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:05 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: % of campus population using your services
>
> Marcy,
>
>At Delta College, roughly 35% of the students enrolled
(10,000+ each
>semester) use one of the services offered by the T/LC at
least once. We
>have looked at this number for five or six years, now, and
the number
>continues to rise.
>
>Jim
>________________________________
>
>From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals on
behalf of
>Marcy Marinelli
>Sent: Thu 6/22/2006 3:37 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: % of campus population using your services
>
>
>
>A question has come up as far as what is an average
percentage
>utilization rate for learning assistance services on our
campuses. Does
>anyone track data on what percent of your campus population
uses your
>services each year? A colleague at another campus
contacted me and
>wondered whether the 27% of students who used their
services was a good,
>bad or average number. Anyone out there care to comment?
I know that
>here we see about 12% of the undergraduate population each
year.we also
>have data that show that by graduation, 25% of our students
have used
>the services of our Counseling Center (of which LAS is a
part). I'd
>love to hear what other people are finding. Thanks!
>
>Marcy Marinelli
>
>Marcy Marinelli, Ph.D., NCC
>Director, Learning Assistance Service
>Assistant Director, Counseling Center
>1104 Shoemaker Building
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD 20742
>301-314-7680
>301-314-9206 (fax)
>
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