{"id":2271,"date":"2014-10-30T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2014-10-30T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:16:51","slug":"fsu-to-survey-students-as-part-of-middle-states-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/fsu-to-survey-students-as-part-of-middle-states-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU to Survey Students As Part of Middle States Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October, the \u201cMiddle States Update\u201d was released to students through email detailing its purpose and the overall strategic goals, modeled and outlined by the \u201cThe Middle States Commission on Higher Education.\u201d\u00a0 The university strives to achieve these goals within the coming semesters and greatly improve the campus for future generations of students.\u00a0 In order to try and make the progress of improving the university as a whole successful, the program would need to heavily rely on student support.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sydney Duncan, an administrator and promoter of the Middle States Update, has offered a strategy that could ultimately help the university improve and achieve all the strategic goals stated in the update at the beginning of this month.\u00a0 It\u2019s called the \u201cMiddle States Student Survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the Middle States Student Survey is to get the student voice in preparing the self-study for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education,\u201d Dr. Duncan said. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough that we just look at student assessment data, or financial reports.\u00a0 We need to know how the students feel about things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, questions will be asked about residence life, academics, sports, and whether student voices are heard.\u00a0 \u201cWe want to get the student picture,\u201d Dr. Duncan says. \u201cIt\u2019s really important that everybody be heard when you do a Middle States self-study, so we want to get as many students as possible to take the survey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order for students to be aware of the survey on a large scale across campus, in the first week of November there will be an email sent out to every student, similar to the one in October detailing the strategic goals of the self-study. It will have a link to take the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duncan says there will also be reminder emails sent out so that students are aware of how important the survey is and encourage them to take it.\u00a0 \u201cIt will be open from the first week of November up until Thanksgiving Break, then that survey will be done,\u201d she says \u201cBut in the spring we will also be sending out a call for students to be a part of focus groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The focus groups, according to Dr. Duncan will involve students volunteering to participate in group discussions with open-ended questions.\u00a0 \u201cWe may ask things like \u2018We have this motto here at Frostburg that says, \u2018One University: A World of Experiences.\u2019\u00a0 Has that been true for you, if so how?\u2019 and then, the students can talk.\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Duncan says the focus group meetings won\u2019t be that long, maybe 45 minutes.\u00a0 \u201cJust another way to get the students involved,\u201d Dr. Duncan says.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, Dr. Duncan remarks that the university did a similar study with the students that attended the university then.\u00a0 She says that some of the questions are the same, and the university as a whole wants to see if there has been any \u201cmovement\u201d or if the university has greatly improved since then.\u00a0 \u201cWe want to see if we have in fact improved our listening to the students since then,\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cWe want to have some level of comparison from the last student survey.\u201d Dr. Duncan said, \u201cIt\u2019s important that the student voice is heard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, the \u201cMiddle States Update\u201d was released to students through email detailing its purpose and the overall strategic goals, modeled and outlined by the \u201cThe Middle States Commission on Higher Education.\u201d\u00a0 The university strives to achieve these goals within the coming semesters and greatly improve the campus for future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campusnews","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Clocktower.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4j5eQ-AD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebottomlinenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}