Welcome back from break and to the headlong rush to the end of the academic year and Commencement!
Update from the Institutional Effectiveness Office
The Student Opinion Survey (SOS) will be distributed early this week (week of April 8) to a representative sample of faculty across the college who have agreed to participate in the process. The SOS, required by SUNY, has been given to undergraduate students at all of SUNY’s community colleges, colleges and universities every third year since 1985. This survey helps Hudson Valley assess various areas of the student experience at the college, both academic and non-academic, highlighting the areas in which we are doing well and identifying the areas in which we need to improve.
The last administration of the SOS was in spring 2013. The results of the 2013 SOS can be viewed at https://www.hvcc.edu/secure/staff/planning/surveys/index.html.
We will receive the results and post them for the campus community in late summer. The results will consist of four parts:
- Hudson Valley’s results
- Hudson Valley’s results compared to the 29 other SUNY community colleges
- Hudson Valley’s results compared to the SUNY community colleges comprising our peer group as defined by SUNY (the ‘big seven’: FIT, Erie, Suffolk, Nassau, Monroe, Westchester, and Hudson Valley)
- Hudson Valley’s results compared to our SUNY community college peer group as defined by us (Monroe, Erie, Westchester, Onondaga, Rockland, Dutchess, and Hudson Valley)
Additionally, several items from the SOS will be used for a new Student Satisfaction Core Indicator to be included in the 2016 Institutional Effectiveness Report. The Student Satisfaction Core Indicator will assess overall satisfaction with HVCC, including the quality of education, how helpful the college was toward goal attainment, the value of the college (cost compared to quality), and whether the respondents would choose to attend HVCC if they could start over.
Thank you all again for your ongoing participation in the Institutional Effectiveness process at Hudson Valley!
Published: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:36:55 +0000 by m.geehan