Summer Quarter Report
Appendix 7c
Highest-Priority Incentives
Mid-Range Incentives
Low-Priority Incentives
University-Generated Incentives
Potential Summer Quarter Attendance Requirements
After looking at the "pro's" and "con's" of summer quarter in an in-depth manner, participants were asked to consider the kinds of things that might influence them to attend summer quarter. They were given some time to think about that question and write down their answers. It is important to note that students were not prompted with predetermined incentives. Once they were finished formulating their answers, all of the potential incentives were compiled on flip charts for a voting exercise.
Participants were each then given ten dot stickers to place by their preferred incentives. This exercise was designed to help show the importance of each possible incentive as a motivator within each group. After all of the groups were completed, the student's incentives and votes were condensed and tabulated. Following are the results of that exercise, with incentives grouped in terms of their importance to students.
After the voting exercise, students were given a handout with predetermined incentives. Participants were asked to check the five most important incentives and to star the single most important incentive. As might be expected, there is some overlap between what the students came up with and what had been generated by the University. Following are the results of this exercise. It is important to note that this data mirrors findings already covered in the report.
| Rated 1 of 5 Most Important Incentives |
Rated Single Most Important Incentives |
|
|---|---|---|
| Reduced tuition | 88% | 20% |
| Availability of intensive courses in your major or specialty | 88% | 7% |
| Full curriculum available in your major | 76% | 34% |
| Internships for credit courses | 68% | 10% |
| Financial incentive to graduate in four years | 61% | 17% |
| Availability of financial aid for the fourth quarter | 44% | 10% |
| Availability of General Education Requirement courses in summer | 32% | 0% |
| Opportunity for full-time work-study in fall, winter, spring quarters | 20% | 0% |
| Opportunity to start senior seminars the summer after junior year | 15% | 0% |
| Freshman and transfer student option to start in summer quarter | 7% | 2% |
| Availability of FIGs in summer | 3% | 0% |
* Readers should interpret these percentages with caution. They are included to display the relative importance of these incentives. However, they are based on a very small number of individuals and are not statistically projectable to all potential summer quarter attendees.
Along with the incentives, participants were asked to look at a series of potential requirements and to rate them on a scale of one to five, with one being least viable and five being most viable. None of the three requirements was rated by students as particularly viable, suggesting that incentives, not requirements, are favored by students. Students were neutral regarding the option of taking summer quarter once during their four years at the University in lieu of another academic quarter. The majority rated the other two requirements as even less viable.
| Least Viable 1 |
2 | 3 | 4 | Most Viable 5 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students required to attend a summer quarter in any one of their 4 years in addition to attending the fall, winter and spring quarters of that academic year | 56% | 29% | 10% | 5% | 0% |
| Students required to a attend summer quarter any one of their 4 years, but need only attend two other quarters in that academic year | 24% | 17% | 17% | 24% | 17% |
| Freshmen required to attend summer quarter before their first year of classes | 76% | 12% | 12% | 0% | 0% |
Summer Quarter Report
Appendix 7c
