University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Activities Recreational Center (ARC) Usage Frequency

Golebiowski, Michael; Kamath, Carrie; Kaiser, Christian

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Title
The Activities Recreational Center (ARC) Usage Frequency
Author(s)
  • Golebiowski, Michael
  • Kamath, Carrie
  • Kaiser, Christian
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
  • ACE 398
  • Fall 2008
  • ARC
  • CRCE
  • student usage rate
Abstract
Abstract Our paper researches student’s usage of the newly renovated Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) on the University of Illinois campus. The ARC was a $54 million project funded entirely by students so it should have an important impact on student life. Our main research objective is to find out which class (i.e. freshman, sophomore, junior or senior) uses the ARC the most. We hypothesize that the factor that will have the most impact on the usage rate of students is the correlation of distance of residency and the ARC facility location. Another tentative hypothesis is that freshmen use the ARC the most because of the major dorm, “the six pack,” has a location across the street from ARC, which contains over 50% of freshmen. We will also look at the usage rates of the other student gym, Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE) and what those students usage rates are compared to the ARC and why.
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ACE 398, Research Methods for Consumer Economics and Finance, Prof. Mary Arends-Kuenning: This course was designed as a critical inquiry course, where students came up with questions that they wanted to answer and then learned how to answer them. As part of the Ethnography of the University (EUI) initiative at the University of Illinois (http://www.eui.uiuc.edu/) students created new knowledge about the university, with the goal that their research would become part of a permanent archive for other students and researchers to use in the future. The research questions they defined focused on the topics of the savings, consumption, and time allocation behavior of University of Illinois students. As a class, students collected both qualitative and quantitative data to answer their research questions. Qualitative data included data from in-depth interviews and from focus group discussions. Quantitative data involved data that could be codified and analyzed using statistical methods. To this end, students collected quantitative data through use of an online survey. Finally, students analyzed their data and produced research papers. The course syllabus is available at: http://www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/ACE398F08.pdf.
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Student Communities and Culture PRIMARY
The university offers an extraordinary opportunity to study and document student communities, life, and culture. This collection includes research on the activities, clubs, and durable social networks that comprise sometimes the greater portion of the university experience for students.