Over 2,300 freshman and senior ETSU students stand a chance to win up to $150 in cash or other prizes including, gift store book certificates and free lunches. What’s the catch? Check your Imail to see if you were chosen as part of a random sample for a national survey.
The 15-minute survey is being conducted by the National Survey of Student Engagement and will be used as a gauge to measure campus activities, experiences and faculty-student relationships in and outside of the classroom, along with other aspects of campus life.
Selected candidates are encouraged to complete the entire survey, which will be addressed to random campus Imail accounts endorsed by President Paul Stanton and titled “from administration.”
“It (the survey) will help us know makes ETSU special so we can keep doing it and in making improvements in making it a better university,” said Cynthia Burnley, assistant vice provost for academic affairs.
Eligible student participants will be entered in a drawing at the end of the survey, where they stand a chance to win one of 16 prizes.
Burnley noted that the results of the survey are so important that the department had to create, “incentives for students to participate.” Winners will be notified through their Imail accounts later in the semester.
The results will be sent to various departments and used by administrators to recognize areas where student needs are being met and also determine where improvements can be made. Student responses are confidential and will only be reported in aggregate to the department by the Indiana based NSSE.
“We want to make sure that as many people respond as possible,” said Burnley, adding that the more students respond, the more accurate the results will be and therefore more beneficial to the campus population.
The survey is being conducted at 560 four-year universities and colleges in the United States and Canada this year, including all state supported schools in Tennessee.
“We hope that they (students) will care enough to want to make improvements,” Burnley said.

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