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SSU Institutional Research & Planning (IRP)
General Effectiveness Survey

Based on your experience, what do you think of IRP's institutional research & planning services?  We would greatly appreciate your response to these questions.
In addition to your formal response, please freely comment on any item, should you wish to do so (attaching additional pages, as necessary).  When completed, please return the form to the IRP office. Your own responses will be confidential; only summary data will be used in preparing our annual analysis. Thank you for your help.

SSU's IRP Mission: IRP objectively studies and clearly informs relevant stakeholders about current University affairs and operations by communicating accurate and timely institutional data in the context of contemporary higher education issues, practices, and theory. It also facilitates and serves as internal technical consultant to stakeholders as they develop their strategic and action plans and continuously evaluate their operating effectiveness.

 

I.  My Involvement with IRP

(Please check one column for each row.)

How frequently have you used services or products of IRP over the past two years? Rarely Ea. Term Monthly Weekly Daily    
I receive regular written reports or data.          
My views are asked via survey instruments.          
I request informal reports, information, or data.          
I request formal written ad-hoc reports or studies          
I request consulting services or advice.          
I send students for individual assignments.          
I send students for consultation & advisement.          
I use IRP for workshops or seminars.          
I use IRP for presentations or demonstrations.          
I participate with IRP staff on committees.          
I use the College Fact Book.          
I refer to the SSU Student Profile.          
I carefully read other written reports from IRP.          
I access the IRP or SACS Committee web sites.          

 

2. Usefullness of IRP Activities:   

(Please check one column for each row.)

How useful are IRP activities in supporting or improving aspects of SSU? Not Very Useful   Very Useful
1 2 3 4 5
Assisting with strategic planning          
Supporting academic program review.          
Evaluating institutional effectiveness          
Monitoring student progress or achievement.          
Monitoring staff productivity          
Monitoring student graduation rates.          
Relating curriculum to community needs.          
Informing key committees with data.          
Evaluating student counseling services.          
Evaluating college support services.          
Evaluating teaching/learning processes          
Relationships between staff and students.          
Monitoring benefactor donations & support.          
Monitoring student attrition & retention          
External community understanding of SSU          
Planning enrollment management.          
Facilitating the SACS accreditation self-study          
Facilitating professional accreditation processes.          
Providing data sets or summary statistics.          
Informing with workshops or presentations          

 

3.  Importance of IRP to understanding SSU Affairs:  

(Please check one column for each row.)

How important is IRP to improving your own understanding of various SSU affairs? Unimportant       Important
1 2 3 4 5
Enrollment patterns          
Student attitudes.          
Attrition & withdrawal patterns.          
Completing developmental courses.          
Regents' Test success patterns.          
Completing degree programs.          
Attending college functions.          
Student goal achievement.          
Student living arrangements.          
Participation in graduate studies.          
SSU Employee attitudes.          
Student employment.          
Student career development.          
Student grade patterns.          
Organizational/institutional issues          
Strategic planning functions.          
Program review activity          

 

4.  Attributes of SSU's IRP Work:
 (Please check one column for each row.)

Please rate the quality of IRP services you have used in terms of: Excellent Good Adequate Needs Improving
Accuracy        
Comprehensiveness        
Clarity/readability        
Timeliness        
Usefulness/value added        
Current on major higher ed. issues        
Accomplishing IRP mission        
Overall quality of service        

 

5.  Qualities of IRP Staff:
 (Please check one column for each row.)

Please rate the quality of the IRP staff in terms of: Excellent Good Adequate Needs Improving
Professional Knowledge        
Enthusiasm        
Commitment        
Communication Skill        
Helpfulness        
Courtesy        
Availability        
Proactive        
Interpersonal Attitudes        
Overall quality of staff        

 

6.  Your own relationship to SSU:

With what part of the University are you most closely affiliated or associated? (Please check one cell in table below.)

Personnel Category

Organizational Unit
Stud Affairs Acad.Affairs Bus/Finance COBA CLASS COST Other
Administrator              
Faculty              
Clerical Staff              
Other Staff              
Student              
Alumni              
External Party              

 

6. Please check which other attributes most describe yourself.
Gender/Ethnicity Asian Black Caucasian Multi-Racial Other
Male          
Female          

 

7.  How long have you been affiliated with SSU?
Less than 1 yr 1-2 yrs 3-4 yrs 5-6 yrs 7-8 yrs 9-10 yrs 11-20 yrs More than 20 yrs.
               

 

8. Please complete the following thoughts:
Institutional research & planning support for SSU could be most improved by...

 

  
I wish that IRP would/could make available to me...


  

 

9. [Optional.] Name: ______________________________________

[Please return survey to IRP, Colston Hall # 107 or P.O.Box 20296, SSU.]