April 1, 2009

Chronicle’s Great Colleges to Work For Survey

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Dear Colleagues:

Our institution is participating in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Great Colleges to Work For Program, an initiative designed to recognize institutions that have built great work places.

Part of the program involves an employee survey distributed to a sample of each institution’s full-time faculty, administrators and professional staff. This survey was designed specifically for higher education. This week, on April 3, this survey will be distributed to a random selection of our employees. If you are included in this random sample, you will receive an invitation encouraging you to take part in the survey. This invitation will be sent via e-mail.

If you receive the invitation, please take the few moments necessary to complete the survey. You will be representing not only yourself, but also your colleagues and your University, so please take the time to share your thoughtful feedback. The results of the survey will be factored into the overall scoring process that will ultimately determine which institutions are recognized. After the Chronicle publishes the findings this summer, our University will receive a report that summarizes responses to the survey questions.

This is an anonymous survey that measures the strength of organizational competencies and relationships that most directly impact and influence an institution’s culture. Your participation and honest feedback is critical to the assessment process. To ensure the confidentiality of your responses, your survey will be processed by ModernThink LLC, a research and consulting firm that focuses on workplace excellence. Our institution will not be given any information that would enable us to trace survey data back to any one individual.

I encourage broad participation. A high response rate helps ensure accurate results and demonstrates the commitment of our work force. Thank you, in advance, for your participation. Please contact Felicia Crawford, director of Human Resources Services at 387-3635 if you have any questions.

Best regards,

John M. Dunn
President