SURVEY policy
The University of Toledo’s Survey Policy (pdf) was enacted in 2020 and requires that surveys administered by colleges, departments, divisions, faculty, staff and students that are addressed to 500 or more members of the University community must submit a request through the Survey Coordination Form and receive approval from the Survey Committee before commencing data collection.
SURVEY POLICY RATIONALE
Our Students, Faculty and Staff are often targets of numerous surveys administered by various administrative offices and faculty or students conducting research. While these surveys are very important for research and administrative purposes, poor coordination and oversampling of our University population creates frustration and causes survey fatigue. This erodes the survey response rate and consequently reduces validity of the results.
SURVEY COMMITTEE
The Survey Committee was re-established in 2016 to develop a process to coordinate all major surveys on campus. The Survey Committee consists of members from Institutional Research, the Provost's office, the Institutional Review Board, Government Relations and Faculty. They can assist with survey design, survey administration and selecting small random samples to yield higher response rates.
If you would like to contact the Survey Committee, please send an email to the co-chairs:
Dr. Anne Fulkerson at anne.fulkerson@utoledo.edu and Dr. Alana Malik at alana.malik@utoledo.edu.