About the Survey

This survey (Faculty Survey 2024) is confidential. Answers are tied to identifying information, but only for the purposes of ensuring that reminder emails are not sent to respondents, that no person can do the survey multiple times, and that only those invited can answer the survey. Contact information is imported into the survey system (Cvent), and the system randomly assigns a response code. Emails are sent to everyone on the contact list, with a unique link tied to the response code. Advancing past the first page of the survey will result in the contact information for that person to be removed from the survey. The response code but no other identifying information will be connected to the response. The respondent can go back to their survey by clicking the link at any time before the survey is closed to complete their response. The only person at American University with access to the response codes will be David Kaib in the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, but response code information will never be used to identify individual responses. As soon as the survey is closed, all identifying information (i.e., the contact information for non-respondents and the response codes for all those who were invited to take the survey) will be deleted. 

Participation in this survey is voluntary, and you may opt out at any time or skip any questions you do not wish to answer. Demographic question also include a Choose not to answer' option. These demographic questions will be used in the analysis of survey results, but only in cases where there are enough responses. In no case will survey breakouts be reported for categories with 5 or fewer answers.