ACA Meeting Minutes February 2011

ACA Monthly Meeting Minutes Wednesday, February 9, 2011 9:00-10:00am SAC 2.302 Legislative Assembly Room Building Relationships 9:00The SERU Survey: 2010 Results and the 2011 Launch Dr. Gale Stuart, Director of Assessment for Student Affairs Lauren Ratliff, Research Associate, Office of the President Gale explained a little history of the inception of the SERU survey. She described it as the ultimate student survey. It was developed in 2000-2001 at Univ. of California Berkeley to obtain feedback from students on large research campuses. The NESSI survey doesn’t quite capture the information the SERU does. The SERU is focused on undergraduate student’s experiences and is designed as a census, unlike the NESSI that surveys a sample group. In 2005 other universities began using the SERU and in 2010 UT Austin participated in a pilot. UT Austin signed a 3 year contract with UC Berkeley to administer the survey for 3 years. The 2009-2010 academic year was the pilot year. The current 2010-2011 academic year is the current/second year and 2011-2012 will be the third academic year. The UT Austin 2010 launch was during April, after spring break and before finals. There was a much lower response rate than expected and Gale explained they have decided that undergraduates are too consumed with exams, registration and summer plan preparation during April, to complete the SERU. Only 21% of undergraduates participated and 15% persisted through the entire survey. The UT Austin SERU website is: www.utexas.edu/SERU Lauren explained the randomness of the survey question modules and that every student does not receive the same survey questions to answer. Students access the survey with their UTEID. It went live on Feb. 1st and students who do not complete the survey will continue to get a weekly email notice/request to complete the survey. Lauren explained where to find the SERU survey results on the website. They can be sorted by college and sorted further by specific majors. Lauren discussed some basic findings listed on the survey site and on the handout she distributed. She explained there is a college competition, amongst UT Austin colleges, to be the college that submits the most surveys. The Student Senate, Student Government, and college councils are working to advertise the survey to students. They have been tabling on the West Mall and yesterday distributed 2000 t-shirts in front of Gregory Gym. Each business day, survey completion results are updated on the SERU website. Gale asked the ACA membership to help communicate the SERU information to students and encourage them to complete the survey. There are some incentives that students who complete the survey will be eligible to win (Some prizes: IPad and tickets to UT sporting events). Gale encouraged us to contact her if we have any ideas or suggestions on how to best encourage and incentivize students to complete the survey. She said they don’t have a budget to purchase prizes and incentivize, so their creativity is limited in that regard. Gale also explained there are some open ended questions on the SERU survey and students have been writing in responses. One particular question asks, “Who has been the most influential person on this campus?” Advisors have been named in some responses from students, thus far, and these answers have been forwarded to Vice Provost Gretchen Ridder. If colleges want to view specific write-in survey responses, they can contact Gale to retrieve this data. 9:302011 New Student Orientation Cristi Biggs, Assistant Dean of Students Cristi distributed 3 handouts: Summer 2011 Orientation Dates, Transfer Orientation Schedule, and Freshman Orientation Schedule. The orientation website opened on Feb. 1 and, to date, over 900 freshman and 1 transfer student have registered for a session. She announced the biggest change from last summer’s orientation is the shorter, 2.5 day Freshman Orientation and longer, 2 day Transfer Orientation. The previous Day 1 and Day 2 sessions of the freshman orientation schedule have basically been combined into 1 day. The college meetings will be held on Day 1 and students will be told they must participate in a college meeting in order to register. The freshman orientation sessions will run from Monday – Wednesday, except on July 6 – 8 (Wednesday – Friday). Cristi emphasized the importance of advising the last session of transfer students to register for at least 1 course since their 2nd and final day of orientation is July 15. This is also the last day of the registration access period during the summer and fee bills will be mailed at midnight. Other points made: ,[object Object]

The pre-advising center will open at 8am.

Day 3 registration will be open to all students from 11- 12:30pm.

ACA Meeting Minutes February 2011

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ACA Meeting Minutes February 2011