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Conversation 1:

Listen to a conversation between a student and the dean of admissions.

Female Student: Hello, dean Benson. If you have a minute, I thought maybe we could go over the results of the survey?

Male Student: Survey?

Female Student: You remember we discussed it when you came to our last campus life meeting?

Male Student: Oh, right. The campus life survey. A great idea by the way.

Female Student: Well, I had to do a survey for my statistics class anyway, and it seemed to tie in with what you were saying about recruiting new students.

Male Student: Exactly right. I mean, applications this year are down by 20 percent.

And since our reputation for academics for me is pretty strong. Our ranking’s always been competitive with other schools in the area, we want to focus on improving the quality of life on campus, to make the school more attractive to prospective students.

Female Student: Well, in that case, I think you would be interested in what I found.

I sent the survey out to all the students on the main campus and got over 200 responses. That’s about, oh, 30 percent, definitely enough data for my assignment.

Male Student: Okay, and?

Female Student: Well, the first part asks them to rate their satisfaction with academics and campus life, and well, as you might have expected, the academic ratings were a lot higher than the campus life ratings.

Male Student: Yes, and?

Female Student: So I broke down aspects of campus life into ten categories and most of them actually received pretty high ratings. But there were a couple that stood out as being way below the others.

Male Student: Let me guess. One of them has to be the cafeteria food.

Female Student: Well, no. Actually, that did pretty well. It was the gym that came out on the bottom.

Male Student: Well, I know the equipment in our athletic center is pretty out-ofdate. They had it in the budget to get replaced, but the athletic funding got cut when they built the new auditorium

Female Student: It sounds like the students had pretty strong feelings about it. A lot of them commented about other schools they visited where they have like rock climbing walls, Olympic-sized pools, weight-training rooms.

Male Student: Well, those kinds of expenses would be prohibitive for a school of our size. But we could try to move on some basic improvements. That’s one job we could tackle. Anyway, what else?

Female Student: The other problem area was the lounges, the ones in the dorms are in really bad shape. They are like dingy and depressing, so hardly anybody ever uses them. Oh, and that big one upstairs from the cafeteria, the heating is always on the blank. It’s been empty all winter. Maybe you could do something about that.

Male Student: Now, that would be a lot more realistic. Let’s see, we could spruce them up a bit. Maybe some repainting, a few new rugs and couches, and better lighting, and some maintenance to check out the heating and cooling systems.

That’s something we could do right away.

ch observation time as you can.