We determined that about 59% of staff time (including staff volunteer time) was spent on core program work during this four month period, 23% was spent on project work, and 18% was spent on fund-raising activities. When all work hours were totalled (including those contributed by board and office/library volunteers) we found that 62% of time was spent on core work, 22% on project work and 16% on fund-raising work.

Comparison of Year-end Statistics

We first began thinking about the concept of 50/50 Management in the spring of 1993, although we did not apply for the project grant until the spring of 1994. However, we felt that we had been applying the 50/50 principles over a long enough period to be able to make some evaluation about whether it was having any effect on our program. Thus we used our 1992, 1993 and 1994 statistics to compare such things as retention rate for students and tutors, the percentages of students and tutors who remained active at the end of any given year, and the numbers of students and tutors classified as inactive. The three year comparisons are shown in Tables 5 and 6.

Student Participation

Table 5 presents a picture of the status of all students who had participated in the program over three consecutive years. In each year we show students who are either new in that year or are returning from the previous year. Within these two broad categories we then show students who are still active, those who are inactive or on hold temporarily, those who have withdrawn from the program and those whom we consider to have completed the program. Completers are considered to be those who have completed their goals in the program to their own satisfaction. They may or may not have moved on to other programs such as academic upgrading.

The raw numbers in each of the categories have been converted to percentages of the total number of students enrolled