The results of the Emerson360 Community Survey are protected by copyright and these survey results are intended only for internal distribution to further ongoing conversations about institutional assessment and improvement. Any reuse, publication, or dissemination of the survey data, in whole or in part, is prohibited without prior written consent from Emerson College. These results are part of an ongoing evaluation process and should only be interpreted within the context of the broader survey.
The Emerson360 Community Survey was last administered between November 1 and 22, 2023. The response rate represented 22% of students and 44% of staff and faculty.
2024-2025 Engagement Timeline:
- January 2024: Data from the Fall 2023 Emerson360 received.
- Spring–Summer 2024: Data analysis and initial pilot feedback sessions with student, faculty, and staff representatives.
- Summer–Fall 2024: Conversations with Vice Presidents and Deans reviewing high-level institutional data and specific findings in each area.
- Fall 2024: Focus groups within each division to discuss specific reflections in greater detail.
- Fall 2024–Spring 2025: Community-wide opportunities for feedback and discussion to ensure our institutional actions reflect the collective perspectives of our diverse community.
Community surveys are recognized as an effective way of assessing the living, learning, and work environments of an organization in order to provide insight into the extent to which conditions associated with healthy and supportive environments exist. In the past few years, community surveys at colleges and universities have been used to gain a better understanding of students’ exposure to instances of power-based interpersonal violence and how they perceive institutional response to such incidents.
Community surveys also solicit information about students’ reporting behavior, their knowledge of support services, and their familiarity with processes for the resolution of reports on campus.
Community assessments of this nature are now considered an essential step in developing comprehensive prevention and education programs related to forms of power-based interpersonal violence.
Emerson360 Community Survey Administrators
ModernThink, LLC, a nationally recognized survey company known for conducting the Chronicle of Education’s Great College’s to Work for Survey, administers the Emerson360 Community Survey. To preserve the privacy of survey participants and to encourage honest responses, ModernThink collects data directly from participants and only provides survey data to the College in aggregate form.
Emerson College collected these data for the sole purpose of improving the quality of processes, practices, programs, benefits, and services to the Emerson community of faculty, staff, and students. The findings should not be used to generalize beyond the Emerson community.