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  • 1.  Assessment Tools for Understanding Community and Belonging in the Union

    Posted 08-05-2021 14:04
    Hi Everyone!  

    I am interested in creating an assessment tool for better understanding our Union's impact on creating a sense of community and belonging.  Does anyone here at ACUI have any tips, tricks or instruments for capturing this data from our campus constituents? 

    Thanks in advance!

    Bradley

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    Bradley Plesz
    Program Manager for Event Production, University Center and Event Services
    University of Colorado–Colorado Springs
    Colorado Springs CO
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  • 2.  RE: Assessment Tools for Understanding Community and Belonging in the Union

    Posted 08-06-2021 12:34
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    The Skyfactor College Union survey has questions that can help inform you about how your student center fosters a sense of belonging at your institution. In addition to asking some direct questions that you can use to benchmark against other participants in the survey, the attached research reports demonstrates how this data can be used to inform the retention conversation on your campus. 

    At Miami University, we have also used the NASPA Consortium Student Unions and Programming survey which has some questions about community and robust benchmarking. 

    Please feel free to reach out if you would like more information on these surveys.

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    Katie Wilson
    Director, Armstrong Student Center
    Miami University
    Oxford OH
    wilso106@MiamiOH.edu
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  • 3.  RE: Assessment Tools for Understanding Community and Belonging in the Union

    Posted 08-09-2021 11:16

    Thank you Katie!  We have participated in the EBI assessment consistently in years past; I'm excited to get this back up and into our assessment cycle.  I will also look into the NASPA survey.  I appreciate your response!

     

    Bradley Plesz

    Program Manager for Event Production

    University Center and Event Services

    University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    Pronouns: he/him/his

    O: UC 101A | P: (719) 255-3101

    E: bplesz@uccs.edu | W: www.uccs.edu/uc

     

     






  • 4.  RE: Assessment Tools for Understanding Community and Belonging in the Union

    Posted 08-09-2021 18:27

    Dear Bradley,

     

    Such a great question and one that I hope many of us dig deeper into exploring how we measure this sense of community we know our students are experiencing with our programs, facilities, and services.  A few suggestions to offer:

     

    • My research was on this very topic and my dissertation, which includes my methodology and interview protocol are in the full document.  I'm happy to discuss approval to use this if you'd like to re-conduct the study at your institution. 
    • In my research, I used (with advance permission) the Brief Sense of Community Scale (BSCS) created by Peterson, Speer, & McMillan
    • A final and more comprehensive tool to consider is the Sense of Community Index, which also would need permission for use. 

     

    Good luck,

     

    Justin Camputaro, Ph.D.
    Executive Director, Husky Union Building (HUB)
    jcamp77@uw.edu  

    hub.washington.edu/

     

    "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."    – Maya Angelou

     






  • 5.  RE: Assessment Tools for Understanding Community and Belonging in the Union

    Posted 08-10-2021 14:55

    Thanks Justin!  Great timing actually.  I just found and read through your research last week!  Very serendipitous that you responded here on the ACUI Forum ��.  Thanks for the additional resources.  I will be sure to dive into these.

     

    Best wishes!

     

    Bradley

     

    Bradley Plesz

    Program Manager for Event Production

    University Center and Event Services

    University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    Pronouns: he/him/his

    O: UC 101A | P: (719) 255-3101

    E: bplesz@uccs.edu | W: www.uccs.edu/uc