GGC percent project - FA 23
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Nov 24, 2024
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GGC Percentage project (due Wednesday, October 4
th
)
Use the GGC website to find the information about Fall 2022 and Fall 2006. You can find Fall 2022 information at http://www.ggc.edu/about-ggc/at-a-glance/ggc-facts/
You can find Fall 2006 info by going to the Project 1 folder in D2L and searching the Fact Book for that year OR you can use the “GGC by the Numbers” link on the right side of the above listed page. Note
: For each calculation you do, please type the work
. For example: (20-18)/18 x 100% = 11%.
If you don’t know how to do this you can ask me or you can go to the AEC, they also know how to do this. Also
: Each paragraph should contain at least 4 complete sentences
. Grammar matters. You are in college.
Part I: Using percent to describe change.
A.
For BOTH Fall 2006 and Fall 2022 find and type into your project the following information:
Total Number of students enrolled Total Number of Faculty (Full-Time and Part-Time added together) – just the total needed here.
Number of Majors offered (For current info, look on the GGC main website and count them.)
2006
2022
Total number of students enrolled
118
11,030
Total number of faculty
10
556
Number of majors offered
3
28
A.
For each of the pairs of information in part A, find the Absolute change
and
the Relative change
. Remember the relative change is the percent change. (This means there will be 6 calculations, 3 for absolution change and 3 for relative change. Please look at rubric for details.)
Absolute change
Relative change
Total number of students enrolled
11,030 – 118 = 10,912
11,030 – 118 / 118 *100 =9247.45%
Total number of faculty
556 – 10 =546
556 – 10 / 10 *100 = 5460 %
Number of majors offered
28 – 3 = 25
28 – 3 / 3 *100 = 833.33%
A.
Write a paragraph expressing your opinions
about the changes and what they mean (good and/or bad) for GGC. Yes, grammar counts. There is no wrong answer here as long as you express your opinion in a paragraph.
The absolute change and relative change demonstrate a continuous growth for GGC, showing a considerable increase specially in the student enrollment which would lead to believe the natural improvement of the institution throughout the years, same goes for the additional majors, opening up for more students to enroll as they now have more option. However, a downside I believe is that the percentage increase in regards to faculty has not kept up with either student enrollment nor majors offered which could be a sign that there will be a side effect for not having the same amount of attention
towards students as they did in 2006. Part 2: Using percent as a fraction.
Find out what percent of students have your characteristics. For each of the following categories, look up the number of students at GGC in Fall 2022 (
only Fall 2022) who have the same characteristics as you
. Then find what percentage of the total student body each number represents. Please tell me both the number and the percentage. (Please note both of these numbers are listed for each characteristic.)
Number of students who share my characteristics
Percentage represented
Gender - male
4,553
4553/11030*100=41.27%
Race - Asian
1,349
1349/11030*100 = 12.23% Full time
7,188
7188/11030*100 = 65.16% Age group (18)
7,098
7098/11030*100 = 64.35% A.
Now that you have found this information, write a paragraph stating how you feel
about being asked this kind of information and why you think it should or should not be asked. Yes, grammar counts. There is no wrong answer, this is your opinion.
In general i believe only 2 of this characteristics should be taken into account, those being age group since this generally affects into knowing which grade they are, also knowing if you have full or par time students will help you know how it is best to accommodate classes as well as how to disperse faculty and
resources such as classrooms. I do not believe gender or race should be asked as there should not be part of any denominator to be taken into account for decisions, it is well known that many colleges use this data to have a minimum percentage of a specific race or to have an average of males and females; however, if ones takes this 2 denominators out of the equation, spots in colleges would go directly who those that demonstrate to be a better fit.
Part 3: Using percent as a difference.
Pick a category (race or age or gender or…). Now pick two characteristics from that category (if you picked race, now choose Asian and black…or white and Asian, or something like that).
A.
What two characteristics did you choose, and how many people of each of your chosen characteristics were there in Fall 2022
?
Asian 1,394
White 2,604
A.
What is their absolute difference? 2,604 - 1,394 = 1,210
A.
What is their relative difference? 1,210 / 1,394 * 100 = 86.80%
A.
When using relative difference, which group was your reference value and why did you decide this? My reference value is Asian students, I decided this because I wanted to see the difference between the schools selection according to race, in this aspect resulting in almost double the enrollment of white students than Asians. A.
Write a paragraph explaining why you chose these characteristics to compare, and what this information means to you.
I believe for me it affects directly into who I am, knowing that schools have such a bigger enrollment of one or other race and therefore you may have a greater opportunity according to your race; however, I also understand that in some areas it will depend directly into the percentage of said race in the area, I would then proceed to compare the population of white students vs other races separately and as whole
as well as studying the percentages of population in the country for example. The choice I made allows me to take the first step into understanding what many people may claim to be
disparity of race or even racism from institutions when in reality it is all reduce to the number and percentage of different sample populations.
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