Surveying Your Alumni

Download or read book Surveying Your Alumni written by and published by Council for Advancement & Support of Education. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for conducting alumni surveys is presented, including 22 sample questionnaires. The first section on planning an effective survey strategy includes the following five articles: "Let's Take a Survey" (Cletis Pride); "Surveying Your Alumni: Or an Unexamined College Is Not Worth Loving" (Jocelyn Bartkevicius); "Make Your Survey Scientific" (James H. Frey); "The Postman Rings Thrice: How to Survey Your Alumni through the Mail" (H. Martin Moore); and "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: The Nine Steps of Surveying Alumni via Telephone" (Robert D. Mills). Seven biographical questionnaire samples and 16 opinion questionnaire samples are provided, along with a selection of cover letters and followup correspondence. Finally, three articles are provided that address the challenge of presenting the survey results: "CSPP Alumni: Where Are They Now?" (Special Report, California School of Professional Psychology); "Who Are the Alumni" (Elise Hancock in "Johns Hopkins Magazine"); and "The Shockley Report" (in "Vanderbilt Alumnus"). Specific topics addressed in the guide include: the problems with many alumni surveys; using standard scientific sampling and research procedures; a time-table for planning mail surveys, and a comparison of face-to-face, mail, and telephone surveys. (SW)