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From: wilson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Wilson)
Newsgroups: soc.college,news.admin
Subject: Survey of Undergrads Posting
Summary: Summary of responses
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Date: 21 Mar 89 21:32:26 GMT
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A little more than a week ago I requested responses for a survey of which
schools allowed posting by undergrads (article <3477@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>).
There were four questions:  (1) name of school, (2) can undergrads read/post/
both, (3) number of undergrads, and (4) number of active readers/posters. The
request for responses was posted to soc.college.

(This survey was prompted by a discussion in news.admin about whether
undergraduates should be allowed to post.  That particular discussion
seems to have mostly died out by now.)

Below are the responses so far.  Obviously there is a high degree of
guesstimation in the Readers/Posters columns, although in a couple of cases
I got responses from news admins who (maybe :-) have a better idea of
the number of people.  I would also guess that this survey still severely
underestimates the number of undegrads with net access.


School                           Post? Ugrads  Readers Posters Responses
---------------------            ----  ------  ------- ------- --------
MIT                              y       4,000              25        1
UC Berkeley                      y      20,000              40        1
Rutgers                          y      25,000             200        1
U of Florida *                   y/n     1,500              10        1
Yale                             y       5,500              20        1
Stanford University              y       7,000              10        3
U of Hawaii                      y      20,000              10        1
Seattle University               y                                    1
Portland State University        y      11,000      35                1
Carroll College                  y       1,800      40      20        1
Northwestern                     y       6,000     100                1
St. Olaf College                 y       3,100     100                1
New Mexico Tech                  y       1,000     100                2
Princeton                        y       4,400     150      10        3
Worcester Polytechnic Inst.      y       4,000     200                1
Marquette University             y       8,000     200                1
University of Colorado           y      20,000     300     100        1
Cornell                          y      10,000     400      40        1
UC San Diego **                  y      17,000   1,000      25        1
                                        ------  ------  ------   ------
Totals                                 169,300   2,625     510       24

Posters/readers as percent of undergrads,
Weighted Average of Non-empty responses            3.0%    0.4%

* U of Florida only allows CS students to read/post
** I wonder if the # of readers here is a typo - seems high

I will be collecting responses for another 10 days; please no more 
responses after 31 March.

In the context of the original discussion, I think the above indicates
that 15,000 more undergrads with posting privileges at Georgia Tech will
not break the net.  (Unless of course they are become news.junkies).
-- 
Tom Wilson                        wilson@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Internet)
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