Campus culture survey coming in October
Starting next month, the university will administer the Campus Culture Survey (CCS), a comprehensive effort to transform the campus culture by better understanding the experiences of students, staff and faculty and the extent to which they feel respected, supported and valued at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder based on aspects of personal identity.
The CCS opens the week of Oct. 18 and closes on Nov. 21, and SRS staff will be able to provide anonymous feedback about sense of belonging, academic and workplace cultures, and share instances of hostile treatment, discrimination and protected-class harassment, including sexual harassment, that they have experienced at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder.
Survey results will support the campus's progress with the implementation of priorities in the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan, the campus鈥檚 blueprint for building a more equitable and inclusive community at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder, and the work of the Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee (ARPAC), which identifies strengths and weaknesses in academic programs and provides constructive options for program development and modification.
鈥淲e can and must do better to ensure that all members of our community have an equitable opportunity to thrive and succeed on our campus,鈥 said Valerie Simons, associate vice chancellor and Title IX coordinator in the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC).
Robert Stubbs, director of institutional research in the Office of Data Analytics (ODA), said the university is taking careful steps to ensure the anonymity of survey participants and to protect the integrity of data that are collected through the survey.
鈥淧articipant anonymity is our first duty of care,鈥 Stubbs said. 鈥淲e are committed to ensuring that individuals can provide candid feedback with confidence. Anything else is counterproductive to this effort.鈥
Steps include severing identifying information from survey participants鈥 survey responses; storing anonymized responses in a secure and encrypted location; sharing only anonymized aggregated results; and limiting those anonymized aggregated results to survey items with 10 or more responses, Stubbs said.
More details can be accessed by visiting the survey鈥檚 FAQs webpage. 抖阴旅行射 Boulder鈥檚 Campus Culture Survey is a collaboration among OIEC, ODA and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE) and is part of a underway on all four 抖阴旅行射 campuses.