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Purpose: HELP! We are asking for your feedback to aide our ongoing research to find The Spirit of Potsdam. 

In your own words please help us find what defines the essence of SUNY Potsdam. 

Directions: Please answer the questions as accurately as you can based on your personal feelings. There are multiple choice and open ended questions present on this survey that will be anonymous. 

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Dear Member of the Potsdam Community,

You are invited to participate in our Spirit of Potsdam Survey. We want your opinion on what makes the Potsdam campus community what it is and why. The average time needed to complete this survey was about five minutes. Your answers are anonymous, and this report will be used for class and internal use only and will not be published.

Tell us what you think. Thank you.

You are invited to be in a research study on your experience at SUNY Potsdam. You were selected as a possible participant because you are a current student, faculty, or alumni of SUNY Potsdam. This study is being conducted by Anthony Betrus, Samantha DiPietro, Bethany Geating, Nicholas Peryea and Franchell Polanco in the Business Administration Department of SUNY Potsdam. The purpose of this study is to capture The Spirit of SUNY Potsdam. We want to know what makes it a community for students, faculty, and staff. The records of this study will be kept private. In any sort of report we might publish, we will not include any information that will make it possible to identify a subject. Research records will be stored securely and only researchers will have access to the records. Participation in this study is voluntary. Your decision whether or not to participate will not affect your current or future relations with SUNY Potsdam.

If you decide to participate, you are free to not answer any question or to withdraw at any time without affecting those relationships. If you have questions later, you are encouraged to contact them at Anthony Betrus at Dunn Hall 393, (315) 267-2987, or [email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study and would like to talk to someone other than the researcher(s), you are encouraged to contact Johanne Sullivan, Chair of the SUNY Potsdam Institutional Review Board by mail (204 Raymond Hall, 44 Pierrepont Avenue, Potsdam, NY, 13668), telephone (315-267-2688) or email ([email protected]). Approval by the Institutional Review Board of SUNY Potsdam and the Institutional Review Board attests only that appropriate safeguards have been included in the research design to protect human participants. This approval does not imply that the College endorses the content of the research or the conclusions drawn from the results of the research.

Statement of Consent:

I have read the above information. By clicking on the link at the top of this page it indicates your consent to participate in this study. The average time to complete this survey is about 5 minutes. The survey website being used for this study has safeguards to keep your responses confidential. You are encouraged to review the specific precautions taken by the website by reviewing the privacy policy or statement posted on the site. Please keep in mind, though, that it is not possible to provide a 100% guarantee that information traveling over the Internet is safe. In addition, when information is collected on‐line, there is a risk of that information leaving the direct control of the researcher and being accessed by others. When sending private information over the Internet, you should take precautions to make sure the information you provide on‐line cannot be viewed by others. First, if you complete the survey at work, please be aware that some employers use tracking software to monitor and record keystrokes, mouse clicks, and web sites visited. This could impact the confidentiality of your responses.

Therefore, you are advised to complete the survey on your home computer or a public computer to better protect your privacy. Further, please remember to clear your browser’s cache and page history after you submit the survey in order to better protect your privacy. If you do not know how to do this, you can go to the following websites for help: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.... and http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000510.htm
 
 
 
What is your affiliation with SUNY Potsdam?
Are you a Student/Faculty/Staff Member/Alumni?
 
Student
 
Faculty
 
Staff Member
 
Alumni
 
Other
 
 
 
 
Gender?
Male/Female/Other
 
Male
 
Female
 
Other
 
 
 
Undergraduate Studies: Expected year of graduation or year graduated from SUNY Potsdam. *Please disregard this question if not applicable.
   
Graduate Studies: Expected year of graduation or year graduated from SUNY Potsdam. *Please disregard this question if not applicable.
   
 
 
Please rate your experience:

Was the quality of your ACADEMIC, SOCIAL and OVERALL experiences at SUNY Potsdam consistent with what your expected they would be?

*1 star to designate it was significantly worse than what you expected.
*2 stars to designate it was worse than expected.
*3 stars to designate it met your expectations.
*4 stars to designate it was better than expected.
*5 stars to designate it was significantly better than what you expected.
Academic Experience
Social Experience
Overall Experience
 
 
 
Would you recommend SUNY Potsdam to someone else? 
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Would you care to express why or why not to the previous question?
   
 
 
 
CREATIVE THINKING SECTION

Directions: Lets get creative! In the following section please use adjectives to describe your answer. We strongly encourage you to fill in the 'why', but ultimately the 'why' is optional. 

EXAMPLE:
QUESTION: If SUNY Potsdam was a major, what would it be? Please tell us why.
ANSWER: SUNY Potsdam would be an art major because the campus is beautiful, the people are creative and each person takes something unique away from being on the campus. 
 
 
 
If SUNY Potsdam was a gender, what gender would it be? Please tell us why.
   
 
 
 
If SUNY Potsdam was a computer brand, would it be a Mac or a PC? Please tell us why.
   
 
 
 
If SUNY Potsdam was a family, what type of family would it be? Please tell us why.
   
 
 
 
If SUNY Potsdam was a type of food, what would it be? Please tell us why.
   
 
 
 
Do you feel the SUNY Potsdam campus community is:
*Please check all that apply.
 
Safe
 
Diverse
 
Open
 
Other
 

 
 
 
We would love for you to share any additional adjectives (descriptive words) that you feel represent, to you, the Spirit of the SUNY Potsdam community. *Up to ten
   
 
 
 
If SUNY Potsdam had a slogan, what would it be?
   
 
 
 
Please feel free to leave any further comments below.
   
 
The Spirit of Potsdam