{"id":4454,"date":"2018-05-07T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:13:48","slug":"can-you-help-with-the-2018-graduate-student-satisfaction-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4454","title":{"rendered":"Can you help with the 2018 Graduate Student Satisfaction Survey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">The Graduate Student Society (GSS) is currently collecting responses for the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">2018 Graduate Student Satisfaction Survey.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span id=\"email_ 5\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 6\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">We have run the survey since 2014 to measure the quality of graduate student experience at UBC Vancouver. Unfortunately, the level of replies this year is lower than usual and so we are reaching out to those directly involved in programs to try and encourage more students to complete the survey.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 7\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 8\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">The answers and opinions collected help the GSS identify the most pressing challenges faced by graduate students, and then advocate for improvements in areas such as graduate student funding, housing, and career preparation.\u00a0In addition, the survey provides a useful snapshot of the changing concerns and experiences of graduate students over time.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 10\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 11\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">I would be most grateful if you could send the message to your student cohort and encourage them to complete the survey as more responses means more robust data.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 14\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">The survey is open until May 15, 2018. It only\u00a0takes less than 20 minutes to finish. Additionally, anyone who completes the survey will have\u00a0a chance to enter the draw for one of six (6) $50 gift cards and one (1) $100 gift card for the\u00a0grand prize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 15\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 16\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Students can complete the survey\u00a0<a id=\"auto_assign_link_num_138\" name=\"https___ubc_ca1_qualtrics_jfe_form_SV_eX\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/trk.cp20.com\/click\/cg1b-oxv8y-eskywp-5ksa1346\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0or via the\u00a0<a id=\"auto_assign_link_num_139\" name=\"gss_ubc_ca_student_survey_2018_\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/trk.cp20.com\/click\/cg1b-oxv8y-eskywq-5ksa1347\/\">GSS website<\/a><\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 17\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 18\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0I appreciate any help you can offer.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 21\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 22\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 23\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 24\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Sara Izadi-Najafabadi<\/span><\/span><span id=\"email_ 25\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"email_ 26\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\">VP University &amp; Academic Affairs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span id=\"email_ 27\">Graduate Student Society<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate Student Society (GSS) is currently collecting responses for the\u00a02018 Graduate Student Satisfaction Survey.\u00a0 We have run the survey since 2014 to measure the quality of graduate student experience at UBC Vancouver. Unfortunately, the level of replies this year is lower than usual and so we are reaching out to those directly involved in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}