Campus climate survey findings to be revealed
Nathyn Gibson
Issue date: 4/28/08 Section: News
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The survey, issued by The Project Team of the Campus Climate Assessment, listed about 75 questions - allowing all PUC faculty and staff to provide feedback about campus climate.
The online survey identified 10 themes that emerged from the focus groups for the Campus Climate Assessment Report conducted last fall. The survey allowed "each school of the university took the opportunity to contribute to a better understanding of the organizational environment of PUC" as stated on PUC's Web site.
The survey's data, analyzed by Project Team members, is currently in review by the Senior Leadership Team and the Multi-Cultural Campus Council. Results of the survey are hoped to be released by finals week, Executive Director Thomas Pavkov said, followed by public presentations on campus.
"Our role is to just report the data properly indicated. We put the data out there. Some things we recommend to be looked at closely," he said. "We are logic models in essence."
Pavkov said the role of the Institute for Social and Policy Research is to provide technical assistance, whereas the Multi-Cultural Campus Council takes its findings and gets a set of recommendations based on the data. The recommendations are then take to the Senior Leadership team.
This survey, which was available for three weeks from March through April, is in response to last fall's release of the Campus Climate Assessment study which revealed faculty and staff issues.
About 100 surveys completed by employees contributed to what Pavkov calls an "excellent response."
About 60 percent of full-time employees responded to the anonymous survey. VOXCO survey software was used "to create randomized monitoring information of respondents to be untraceable to individual respondents" as stated on the Web site.
The survey was not released soon after the initials findings In December in order to appropriately compile questions. Project Team members researched other universities' campus climate assessments nationally "to ensure we measure what people told us in focus groups," he said.
The findings to this follow-up will also reportedly appear in the new Strategic Plan, set for release this year.
"Whether they use it or not out, it is out of our control," Pavkov said. "I'm hoping this is plugged in and used though.
"There have been a lot of people who participated in this process. The level of participation indicates desire for people to see it used for change."
A member from the Multi-Cultural Campus Council could not be reached for comment.
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