This report focuses on planned use of time by NCC students and the 1994 entering students, and actual time spent by the 1994 and 1995 graduating seniors. All figures shown here represent the percentage who plan or are doing that activity. NCC freshmen and 1994 freshmen have similar expectations regarding how they will spend their time. As shown in Figure 1, both 1994 and 1995 graduating seniors, spent approximately 21 hours per week working for pay. Again, freshmen intend to spend the most time per week in classes and labs, while seniors actually spend the most time of the five activities working for pay.
All groups devote or plan to devote the fewest hours per week to student clubs and organizations.
Table 1 also shows that when the groups are analyzed by gender, the pattern for the NCC freshmen diverge from the other groups. NCC freshmen were the only group which showed no significant gender differences in any of the five activities. The 1994 first time freshmen, however, show significant gender differences in expected class time, study time, and family interaction time. Summary NCC freshmen as a group appear to hold the same expectations as other GMU freshmen in regards to the allocation of time to five first semester activities. NCC men and women expect to spend about the same amount of time in these activities.