Primary Research Group Inc. has published the International Survey of Research University Leadership, View of the Effectiveness of the University Tutoring Program, ISBN 978-157440-492-0

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 PDF version of the 90-page study is currently available from Primary Research Group for $95.00 and a print version at the same price is in production and will be available for shipment on February 19, 2018 and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available.  To view a table of contents, an excerpt, the survey questionnaire and a list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants – or to place an order – view the product page for this report at:

Or call us at 212-736-2316 or visit our general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.

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