During the week of October 24-28, your student will be asked by his or her professor to take a Student Satisfaction Inventory – an electronic survey that asks questions about everything from their course of study to their quality of life at MIAD.
The survey is a follow-up to the last Student Satisfaction Inventory, which many students filled out two years ago. Those students, the survey results, and the focus groups that followed, were pivotal.
Though the results provided much to celebrate, most important, they provided information that allowed faculty and staff to implement sweeping changes to improve the value and quality of students’ educational experience. No subject was off limits; all data had a profound impact on how MIAD has been transformed over the last two years. All responses are confidential.
Some examples of the changes made since 2009 include:
- A revised academic structure with six new academic chairs to guide students’ experience from foundation to graduation.
- A new foundations curriculum started in fall 2010.
- A complete revamp of our financial aid team, processes and procedures.
- A new computer system to change our billing statements and merge financial aid and billing information together.
- The implementation of a new academic advising model.
- A new residence apartment facility.
- Expanded peer mentor program linked to orientation.
- New internal communications through the “River Rat” and regular communications with you as parents.
- Adding three new full-time faculty positions.
- Adding a laptop program for all students with advance technology tools to integrate art and design through traditional and technological mediums.
So while the survey is not mandatory, it is indispensable. We will receive the results of students’ input with the same respect, dedication and commitment to improve as we have in the past.
Please encourage your student to take advantage of this opportunity to tell us their perceptions and what they value. We thank you in advance and eagerly wait to hear what they have to tell us.
Mary Schopp, Vice President for Enrollment Management