wilson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Wilson) (03/22/89)
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).
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Tom Wilson wilson@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Internet)
wilson@uhccux.UUCP || wilson@uhccux (Bitnet)wilson@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Tom Wilson) (04/04/89)
In mid-March I requested responses for a survey of which schools allowed
undergraduates to read or post. The survey was posted to soc.college.
(I did this during the end of the discussion on whether undergraduates
should be allowed to post.) Final survey results are given below.
Ugrads can --------- # of -------- Survey
School Read? Post? Ugrads Readers Posters Responses
--------------------- ----- ---- ------ ------- ------- --------
Boston University y y 14,000 80 10 1
Caltech y y 750 130 15 1
Carnegie Mellon y y 5,200 1,000 2
Carroll College y y 1,800 40 20 1
Cornell y y 10,000 400 40 1
Dalhousie University [2] y y 4,000 100 25 1
Kansas State y n 12,000 200 10 1
Marquette University y y 8,000 200 1
MIT y y 4,000 25 1
New Mexico Tech y y 1,000 100 2
North Dakota System [4] y y 32,000 700 300 1
Northwestern y y 6,000 100 1
Ohio State y y 50,000 2
Penn State y y 30,000 50 20 1
Portland State University y y 11,000 35 1
Princeton y y 4,400 150 10 3
Reed College y y 1,200 100 50 1
Rutgers y y 25,000 200 1
Seattle University y y 4,300 10 3 1
Stanford University y y 7,000 10 3
St. Olaf College y y 3,100 100 1
U of Arizona y y 35,000 10 1 1
U of Florida [1] y/n y/n 1,500 10 1
U of Hawaii y y 20,000 10 1
U of Michigan [3] y y 2,000 400 10 1
U of Minnesota y y 1
U of Washington y y 1
UC Berkeley y y 20,000 40 1
UC San Diego y y 17,000 1,000 25 2
University of Colorado y y 20,000 300 100 1
USC y y 20,000 1
Worcester Polytechnic Insty y 4,000 200 1
Yale y y 5,500 20 1
------ ------ ------ ------
Totals 379,750 5,405 954 41
Weighted Average of Non-empty responses 2.4% 0.4%
[1] U of Florida only allows CS students to read/post
[2] Posting by CS students only, because general use machine can't post
[3] Engineering school only
[4] 11 campuses
Note that the above have a high degree of guesstimate factor in them.
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Tom Wilson wilson@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Internet)
wilson@uhccux.UUCP || wilson@uhccux (Bitnet)