LAS Climate Survey

Only the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) will have access to the identifiable raw data, and it will not be shared with anyone outside of CITL.

We are very cautious about accidentally exposing individual respondents to units who have any kind of authority over them. To mitigate this potential problem, we employ three strategies:

1. Based on the list of potential respondents, we review the number of people within each demographic or other reported group to ensure we have a high enough concentration of people within that group to avoid accidentally identifying someone. Typically, the cut-off for reporting is that we must have at least five people in any reported demographic breakout.
2. Sometimes we collapse demographic groups into a larger category for reporting purposes. For example, the university system has many types of employees: Tenured faculty, instructors, CS staff, extra help, academic hourly, student employees, research graduate, teaching graduates etc. We will merge several of these categories and retain only two or three overarching groups. For example, we might merge Academic professional and CS staff into a single group called staff. We will work with the college staff to ensure meaningful and consistent groupings.
3. We will review all of the open-ended comments in the survey and redact information that could lead to individual identification. For example, some people name their advisor or others might talk about a specific event that would easily identify them; those portions of the comments will be redacted before they are included in departmental reports.  Only redacted comments will be shared with the departments.  A few people on the research team and outside of CITL, will have access to the unredacted comments, but without a name attached so that some concerns can be addressed at the college level.

Departments will received aggregated de-identified reports from LAS.

The LAS Office of Inclusive Excellence and the LAS associate deans will be utilizing the survey data to generate reports for each unit, which will include proposed actions to address any identified issues. These reports will serve as a guide for each unit to develop their own strategic action plan, which will be shared with their respective members.

All of LAS (staff, graduate students, postdocs, undergraduates, faculty (including currently employed adjunct), specialized, instructional, research etc). In the Grainger College of Engineering, only faculty and staff will be surveyed. If you feel you are eligible to participate in the survey and do not see a survey link when you log into feedback.illinois.edu please contact Maryalice Wu.

We are pulling info such as college, department, major, year in school, employee type, etc. from BANNER before we launch the survey.  Then this info can be merged in with the survey data, and will be used to feed specific questions to specific groups of individuals.

Please contact Lloyd Munjanja and/or Isabel Molina at las-dei@mx.uillinois.edu.