The report presents the views on the university tutoring program from 249 deans, chancellors, department chairmen, distinguished professors, and administrative department heads from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Survey participants rate their programs, indicate their support for more or less spending on it, and suggest means of improvement. They also give their views on just how important the tutoring program is to the overall success of the university, and pinpoint student.
Just a few of the report’s many finding are that:
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Canadian survey participants were less likely than others to feel that their tutoring programs were good or excellent. Only a bit more than 18% thought their programs merited one of these descriptions.
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One interesting finding is strong support for spending more on tutoring from the university funding guardians working in university business and finance offices, 35% supported spending more on tutoring, the highest percentage of any occupational group in the sample.
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In general, for many incoming students, basic math education is viewed as weak, creating impediments in many fields, discouraging entrance in to these fields and reducing the pool of viable candidates, as well as creating retention-oriented problems later on.
Data in the report is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution. The sample is comprised of deans, provosts, chancellors, trustees, vice presidents, upper level administration directors, academic department heads, and distinguished professors.
A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:
Australian National University
Barnard College
Baylor College of Medicine
Brown University
Carleton University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland
Curtin University
Drexel University
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Griffith University
Imperial College London
James Cook University
Lehigh University
Massey University
McGill University
Michigan State University
Monash University
Penn State College of Medicine
Penn State University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Queen Mary University of London
Rice University
Rutgers University
Saint Louis University
Swinburne University of Technology
Teachers College, Columbia University
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis
University of Idaho
University College Dublin
University of Alberta
University of Birmingham
University of California, Davis
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California--Berkeley