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February 14, 2003
Make
Your Voice Heard: Respond to
the Enrolled Student Survey by March 9
On
February 24, Mount Holyoke will launch the Enrolled Student Survey
(ESS) on campus. This confidential survey, being administered
at the College for the first time, was developed to measure the
experience of students at selective, liberal arts, residential
colleges and universities. The ESS will be used to collect information
from students on a variety of topics of interest to students,
faculty, and administrators. The survey includes a wide range
of questions on student-faculty interaction, student time spent
engaged in various academic and social activities, and use of
residential halls and campus gathering places, among other things.
Mount Holyoke’s participation in the ESS, along with twenty-eight
other selective schools and universities in the Consortium on
Financing Higher Education (COFHE), will allow the College to
compare its results to those of similar schools.
In mid-February, students will receive a letter from Dean of Faculty
Donal O’Shea that will introduce them to the survey and
invite them to participate. On February 24, students will receive
an email launching the survey and pointing them to a unique Web
site where they can respond to the survey. Students will have
until March 9 to respond.
Mount Holyoke’s Office of Institutional Research urges all
students to respond to the survey, as it is an ideal venue to
provide student input to campus administrators. Data from the
survey will be used to inform College decisions, and by responding
to the survey, students are allowing their voices to be heard.
The goal is 100 percent participation. All data from this and
all COFHE surveys will remain strictly confidential. Neither personally
identifiable information nor identifiable responses to survey
questions will become part of the reporting from this survey.
Although the survey only takes twenty to twenty-five minutes to
complete, the College realizes that student time is valuable and
greatly appreciates student participation. As a way of saying
thank you, there will be a random drawing for ten prizes of $100
each in One Card credit. Students who complete the survey by March
9 will be entered automatically into the drawing that will take
place once all the data have been received on campus.
For additional information
on the Enrolled Student Survey, contact Alison Donta in the Office
of Institutional Research at x3143 or adonta@mtholyoke.edu.
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