2009-2010 Annual Report Summary
Writing Center
soon to be the Michigan Tech M u l t i l i t e r a c i e s C e n t e r
Writing Center Numbers
Total Number of Visits
Writing Center Usage by Class Standing
9% 14,010
Total Number of Individual Users: 887
86.4% Undergraduate
13.6% Graduate
11% First Year
33% Second Year
Third Year
14% Fourth Year
16% MS
17% PhD
54% Domestic
46% International
60% of students who used the Writing Center on a weekly basis
came for a general education course. World Cultures Study Teams
25% of World Cultures students enrolled on a study
team. Students on a study team earned:
Retention
First-year students with weekly Writing Center appointments had a
21% higher rate of A’s
54% lower rate of F’s
26% higher retention rate than their cohort with less than 19
verbal ACT scores.
Staff Diversity
Other Measures of
Effectiveness
Average student evaluation of individual appointments:
4.75
Coaches who are non-majority students in terms of racial or hybrid
identity, international, multilingual, non-traditional, GLBT: 36%
Average student evaluation of study teams:
(On a 5.0 scale)
4.65
Coaches who are non-majority and/or female: 81%
Majors represented on staff
3 Business and Economics
13 Engineering
12 Sciences and Arts
6 RTC Graduate Students
Writing Coaches’ Honors/Awards/Recognition
3 presenters at East Central Writing Centers Association
Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society
Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship Award
Dean’s List
Klein Creative Writing Award
Noyce Teaching Scholarship Award
Outstanding Woman in Business Award
Provost’s Award for Scholarship in the Humanities
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Winter Carnival Queen
Graduate Student Usage by College
College of Engineering
3% School of Business and
Economics
29% 57% College of Sciences and
Arts
11% School of Forest
Resources and
Environmental Science
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