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<p>Dear PREV students,</p>
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You should have received an email from grad school to complete the graduate student experience survey. Please take the time out to fill out this survey as your responses can help us improve your experience as a graduate student and that of future students. </p>
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<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Atika & Leslie <br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> grad-dir-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu <grad-dir-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu> on behalf of Sara D. Hodges <sdhodges@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 9, 2018 9:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> grad-dir@lists.uoregon.edu; grad-sec@lists.uoregon.edu; Grad-heads@lists.uoregon.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> grad-dir: grad student experience survey</font>
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<div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear Grad Heads, Directors, & Coordinators,
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Every 3 years, the Graduate School conducts a graduate student experience survey. And yup, you guessed it: 2018 is one of those years!<br>
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Your grad students all got the email below asking them to complete the survey. This year, things are slightly different, in that we have joined a consortium of schools to use a professionally developed survey (which is much better than previous in-house attempts
and will also help us in nudging students to respond). We were able to customize the survey to ask about items that we at UO uniquely care about, but the bulk of the questions (which will cover topics we previously surveyed and using similar scales) are ones
that are being administered at other research-intensive universities, allowing us to see how we stack up. So, your students will be seeing email from "gradSERU" (the Graduate Student Experience In the Research University).
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If they - or you - have any questions, please let us in the Graduate School know. Tori Byington (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:byington@uoregon.edu">byington@uoregon.edu</a>) is probably the best person to start with, as she is heading up
the data collection and collaboration with gradSERU. <br>
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We really do value the data we get from these surveys, as it guides what we do in the Grad School. And in this metric-mad world, having good data matters for other reasons too. Please encourage your students to participate, so our metrics are representative
of what our students are experiencing!<br>
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thanks, <br>
-Sara<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear graduate student, </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">E</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">very 3 years, the UO Graduate School conducts a survey of what our graduate students experience while in graduate school. This survey is important for us to know what parts of that experience
are going well, and what aspects could be changed for the better. The survey covers what’s happening on campus, as well as asking questions about your specific program of study and your individual academic experiences. The UO Graduate School takes the survey
results seriously in guiding its mission and in deciding where to focus attention and resources.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">This year, for the first time, we have joined a consortium of other graduate schools to use a professionally developed survey – the
<b style="">Graduate Student Experience in the Research University</b> (gradSERU). We were still able to customize the survey to include items that are uniquely important to the UO, but by using questions that also appear on other universities’ surveys, we’ll
be able to examine how the UO compares to other graduate schools. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">I enthusiastically invite you to take the time to complete the gradSERU survey. Without a broad response for you, our graduate students, the survey results are less useful. PLEASE: Help us help you and help future graduate students
by completing the survey. Encourage your peers to complete the survey as well – the more responses we get, the better we will know what our priorities should be.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Your responses are confidential and will be reported only in an aggregate form that cannot be linked back to you as an individual.
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<small><small>The survey takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, and can be completed in more than one sitting (so you can take a break and come back to it, if you need to).<span style="">
</span>To make things a bit more fun, all students who take the gradSERU will be entered into a random drawing for one of twenty $50 gift cards to local restaurants (GOOD restaurants – ones our Advisory Board told us were grad student favorites!). In addition,
the first 100 students to do the survey will get $5 in “Duck Bucks” (handy money on your UO ID card that you can use for coffee and meals on campus). AND: Two lucky participants will win our drawing for a new I-pad! The survey closes June 15th, 2018 and prize
winners will be notified via email no later than June 30, 2018. </small></small><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On behalf of the Graduate School, I want to thank you in advance for taking time out of your busy schedule to complete this year’s graduate student experience survey and in helping us to strengthen
graduate education. </span><br>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><<Students receive a link to the survey here>> <br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely, </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sara D. Hodges, PhD</span><small><small><br>
Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School </small></small></font><br>
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