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SAC forms survey committee to design systemwide student-needs survey; IRB approval required for systemwide deployment
Summary
Student Advisory Committee members volunteered for a survey committee that will draft questions about student needs, modalities and wraparound services, work with the system office on survey construction, and pursue Institutional Review Board approval and incentives to boost response rates.
Students at a Jan. 10 Student Advisory Committee meeting formed a survey committee to develop a systemwide survey of student needs and use of wraparound services across Connecticut State campuses.
Luis, who said he will lead the survey committee, outlined the project's goal: to collect data on student needs—housing, food insecurity, transportation, modality of classes, tutoring and mental-health services—and to use the results to recommend resource allocations. "Our objective of the survey is gonna be like surveying the student needs... the wrap around services the student utilized across the campuses to see if they're meeting their needs," Luis said.
System office staff explained that once students choose the questions, the system office survey team will help build the instrument. If the survey is deployed systemwide and treated as research, it will need Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. Attendees also discussed incentives: system leaders said the Board supported using incentives to raise participation but that the survey team must define appropriate, approved incentives.
Students and staff discussed scope and timing. The committee suggested keeping the survey short to avoid low participation and agreed to identify priority topics before drafting specific items. Luis said the aim was to launch the instrument "potentially halfway through the semester," subject to question selection and IRB review.
Volunteer members include Dakota Lawson and Pierce; faculty and staff offered technical support. Carlos, who described a background in PhD-level survey work, offered to assist the committee with survey methodology if students defined the topics first.
Next steps: the student survey committee will compile topic areas and draft questions, the system office will provide a Word-based workflow and survey building support, and the committee will pursue IRB approval if required. The group discussed incentives and agreed to return with proposed incentive ideas to boost participation.
