Oakland Center Group

Oakland Center GroupAmanda, Chris, Dominique, Sydney

Are students willing to pay a tuition increase for the expansion of the Oakland Center?

InterviewsTwo people were interviewed and asked:

❖ How often do you use the Oakland Center?

★ What are your thoughts on the proposed Oakland Center expansion, which could be funded by an increase in tuition?

Interview Answers Yes

• Larger Dining Area

• Additional Lounge Areas

• Bowling Alley/ Movie Theater

No • Commuters don’t

use OC• Everyone is

paying for services, but only used by the minority2-6

hrs/week0 hrs/week

BookstoreVery few people;

★ Chilly★ Fairly Isolated★ Usually Quiet★ Mostly a resting space

Cafe O’Bears★ Usually Crowded

★ Mixture of Socialization and Studying

★ Extremely Busy in Spurts

Cafeteria❖ Extremely crowded during lunch

hours❖ No one could find places to sit

(either alone or with friends)❖ Very loud❖ Everyone seemed to be in a good

mood❖ Some will do homework and eat

lunch, some socialize with friends❖ Students were promoting clubs

and organizations

Technology Center

➢ Low Traffic➢ Quiet➢ Isolated➢ Individual

Projects

Thoughts Among Years

★ Freshman females were the highest percent of respondents.

★ First Question:

Have you taken the

official expansion survey?

★ Second Question:

Are you aware that Oakland

wishes to expand the

Oakland Center?

Awareness★ In each year the number of people with knowledge of Oakland’s intention

to expand was higher, despite the number of people having taken the official survey being smaller.

★ Freshman had the highest percent of people taking the original survey at 56%. (Sophomore: 40% Junior: 40% Senior: 25%)

★ Seniors had the highest knowledge of Oaklands intention to expand at 100%. (Freshman: 78% Sophomore: 60% Junior: 80%)

Likes/Dislikes★ People in all years had ‘Food’ selected as their greatest like.

★ There is no first in the dislike category with answers being varied in no clear pattern.

★ No Sophomores selected ‘Food’ as a dislike, no Junior selected ‘Education’, and no Seniors selected ‘Technology’ or ‘Other’

★ Everyone choose to answer the ‘like’ question, yet many did not select an answer for the ‘dislike’ question.

Who’s willing to support a tuition increase to curb the crowding problem?

Who supports a tuition increase?

Tuition★ The percentage of people who did not support tuition increase

was higher in all years.

★ No Sophomore nor Senior supported a tuition increase.

★ Only 6 Freshman and 1 Junior said they would support a tuition increase.

What are people willing to pay?

** These are outliers

★ Most don’t want any kind of increase.

★ .5-10% range is the second highest.

Interesting Observations★ We had two outliers; one who said they would support a

50% tuition increase and another saying they would support a 75% increase.

★ Some checked the same option for ‘things they wanted’ as well as ‘things they didn’t want’.

Interesting Observations: Continued

★ 11 hadn’t taken the original survey but still knew of the plan to expand.

★ People generally knew what they wanted, but were less sure of what they didn’t want. (Many leaving that question blank.)

It seems that the importance of of food choice and education

are opposites for Seniors and Freshmen.

Freshmen know what they want but don’t

know what they don’t want as they chose not to answer to question.*

*Not answering was valid and subjects were

told beforehand.

An Interesting Graph

Final Thoughts★ While most do not want an increase in tuition,

they’d be willing to pay instead of switching universities.

★ Based on the people we polled, Freshman used the Oakland Center the most and wanted more than their older counterparts, yet still did not want an increase in tuition.

After Thoughts

★ More planning time would have been nice

★ Doing additional surveys at different hours

★ Better communication