Hello, Learning Center Leaders:
Please allow me a quick commercial break, but one germane to this thread.
I hope this fascinating exploration of staff to tutor ratios leads to someone writing an article for the peer reviewed journal, The Learning Assistance Review, published by the National College Learning Center Association. Highlighting the work of learning commons professionals has always been the mission of the NCLCA. The Learning Assistance Review aims to publish scholarly articles and reviews that address issues of interest to a broad range of academic professionals. I believe that this topic would be of great interest to our readership.
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Hi All.
I saved some answers that were given to a similar question a while ago (see attached Word document). I also ask some questions in September that can help with this (see Excel file). The excel file is organized by institution and not by question. That might make it a bit difficult to read at first. I apologize but I have not had the time, yet, to reorganize it.
I hope these two documents can help and I would be very interested in other colleagues' insights.
Best,
Ira
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Joe Salvatore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Rebecca,
We've actually considered this question lately as well while preparing our strategic three-year budget. Currently, we have one program manager supervising 218 study group facilitators and one program manager supervising 60 tutors and 12 mentors. These programs do share one administrative assistant as well. Obviously, this is far from ideal or a best practice and we are hoping to provide the evidence needed to convince our Dean's Office to grant our request for additional staff.
Thanks!
Joe
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Rebecca Tedesco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
What have you found in your experience, or in the literature, to be an ideal staff to tutor ratio for supervision and training? We are growing our team and want to follow best practices.
Applies for cross-posting. Thanks in advance!
Rebecca Tedesco
Peer Connections Tutor Coordinator
San Jose State University
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