During the fall 2021 term, all CU Denver employees and students were invited to participate in the Campus and Workplace Culture survey. The survey asked respondents a range of questions around their sense of belonging and value within the campus community and invited them to speak to specific moments of harm/harassment they may have experienced in their time with CU Denver.
Survey responses were collected during October and November of 2021. Starting in December, the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) began the process of cleaning and organizing the data, so that the data could be analyzed and shared with the campus community. While this process was taking place, the Campus and Workplace Culture Steering Committee, led by Antonio Farias (Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), shifted their focus towards both the immediate reporting needs of the CU Board of Regents and towards longer-term planning for the eventual actions plans that would be based on the results of the survey.
In January, 2022, overall response rates were shared with the Board of Regents digitally. Those response rates then led off a more expansive presentation delivered in-person at the Board of Regents meeting on February 10, 2022. This BOR Presentation focused on the required Regent metrics around incivility and mental health, presented at a very high level.
February and March were spent cleaning and analyzing the data, and constructing an initial series of dashboards to share data with the campus community. On April 7, 2022, the Board of Regents was presented with a summary of survey results from each surveyed population – faculty, staff, undergraduate students, and graduate students. Following the presentation, the dashboards were published on the OIRE Website.
Late spring and summer 2022 will see continued work to dive further into the details of the results and refinement of the action plans driven by the survey and our strategic initiatives. The Campus and Workplace Culture Steering Committee is committed to allowing for as much data transparency as possible within the data security confines outlined at the surveys launch - particularly that data from response groups of fewer than ten individuals will never be shown and that all results will remain anonymized.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please contact the Campus and Workplace Culture Steering Committee at cwcsurvey@ucdenver.edu.