The CU Boulder Office of Data Analytics administered the survey. ODA administers most of the large-scale surveys at CU Boulder and follows best practices in survey and data security standards.
There are different versions of the survey, and campus survey administrators tailored each one to fit the needs and experiences of each constituent group on campus. Faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduate students received different but comparable versions of the survey.
Participation rates were strong:
The CU Boulder Office of Data Analytics safeguards sensitive employment and student data with state-of-the-art data security protocols. The survey platform, Qualtrics, meets Vendor Security Assessment Questionnaire data standards. The data are encrypted in transit and at rest. Read more about Qualtrics security. Once the survey closed, data were encrypted in transit to ODA. The full database of anonymized responses are held by ODA in encrypted form on their secure server.
The university uses the results of the Campus Culture Survey to improve campus programs, and the survey is not intended for research use. Survey responses—even though anonymized—would never be shared, even for the purposes of conducting research. When there are more than 10 individuals in a group, alone or in combination with other groups, aggregated results will be displayed in data visualization software.