Online Survey Products
University Decision Support (UDS) offers a suite of on-line survey products that includes five customizable, pre-designed modules to serve the information needs of Student Services Professionals:
- Housing Services
- Dining Services
- Student Life
- International Student Services
- Student Health Services (available 09-08)
Our survey products have been developed and field-tested by a team of highly-skilled, qualified individuals. With over thirty years of experience collaborating with client organizations and listening carefully to managers who have strategic and day-to-day operational responsibility, our team understands that solutions to even the common problems in student services management always have some elements that are unique to the client institution, that the solutions that have the best chance of succeeding are those that are data driven, but which take the institution’s managers points of view into account. Listening, therefore, is the first activity of every engagement.
Once you appoint UDS to survey your student populations, you and your institution will benefit in three important ways:
YOU WILL SAVE TIME: Avoid getting bogged down in the highly-technical and time-consuming tasks of survey design, administration and statistical analysis.
YOU WILL RECEIVE VALUABLE ANALYSIS: You receive an insightful statistical analysis of the data that will shed light on your important student service management issues with process and operational implications for all members of the student service team from resident assistants to directors to deans, even the president and board.
YOU WILL MAKE BETTER DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS: You will have relevant, current, actionable management information that can be implemented across all levels of your organization to bring all departments and levels of management into policy, process and operational congruence.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
All of our surveys are administered on-line over a secure network. You simply provide UDS with the institutional email addresses of those students or faculty who are to be surveyed, and we take care of the rest.
You tell us when you want the survey to be available to your students or faculty; we do the rest. We take care of communicating with the students, informing them when their survey is ready, reminding them periodically to complete it, and thanking them when they have.
While the survey is in progress, you can monitor summaries of the responses to each and every question throughout the period of the survey and afterwards. This is optional, yet available, as you may need and on your timetable.
Then, within 24 hours of the survey close, an electronic file with the response data is at your fingertips. Within 48 hours of the survey end, our statistical analysis is delivered to you.
Our comprehensive statistical analysis report will provide the critical information you need to make important data driven decisions. We understand that the management of student services is demanding and complicated. Our meaningful and timely information, supported by accurate and up-to-date survey results, allows you to make informed, data driven decisions for yourself and your institution. You are invited to preview the topics covered by the survey modules, take a self assessment of your institution’s survey needs to see which modules are right for your institution, even demo the survey products if you wish — go ahead, demo the product.