A great big thank you to all of our dedicated tutors, librarians, tutees, and staff for helping us have our best semester yet. This term, we've had 1916 writing center appointments that served 701 different clients!
That's a big increase from last spring -- the Spring 2014 term had 1441 appointments that served 514 different clients -- so
our usage is up approximately 33% over the same term last year and
our
number of clients served is up approximately 36% over the same term last
year.
Great work from our librarians!
Our figures from Spring 2015 include 35 intensive research appointments with our reference librarians from Axinn Library as opposed to 10 intensive research appointments during the Spring 2014 term --
a 250% increase!
Continuing our work with Hofstra's NCAA Athletes
The figure also includes 68 appointments serving our NCAA athletes at the Fried Athletic Center in an initiative that started last fall and that required getting the majority of our tutors certified to be eligible to work with NCAA athletes.
Continuing our world-wide connection serving Hofstra's non-Native English speakers
Approximately 36% of our appointments serve students whose native language is not English, with native Chinese speakers (Cantonese or Mandarin) being served though about 22% of our appointments. The native languages of our clients include Arabic, Bangla/Bengali, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Urdu.
Helping Hofstra's graduate students succeed
Around 27% of our appointments served graduate students, either for regular classwork or for dissertation/thesis work.
