Student Affairs Assessment Archives

Providing support, guidance, direction, and coordination for assessment efforts across the division of Student Affairs; inspiring and assisting units and individuals in their pursuit of standards of excellence.

What you'll find: Assessment data and reports conducted at the division level, and within units.

Student Experience Cohort Data

In the summer of 2002, the Division of Student Affairs began a significant undertaking in order to develop a more complex picture of the experience of CU students over time.  This project was motivated by a desire to better understand how involvement in a wide array of “niches” across campus and access to a variety of programs, services, and events shaped and influenced students’ university experience. 

We began in 2002 by surveying a small sample (~500) of our incoming class before they attended orientation sessions or arrived on campus in order to assess their expectations for college life at CU-Boulder. Since then, we have followed up with the remaining students from this initial sample each semester, and added a new cohort (of ~1030 students) each year—also surveying them at the beginning of their CU Experience and following up with each cohort twice a year.  This now represents a significant data set.

The DRAFT report linked below summarizes some of the key findings and items of particular interest from this data organized in five broad themes: (1) the power of time and expectations, (2) the meaning of the CU experience, (3) the impact of group and organizational involvement, (4) interesting findings by school or college, and (5) interesting findings by demographic features.

May 2006 DRAFT Student Experience Cohort Data Report

Other Unit Assessment Reports

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