Final
Report of CSSA First Survey
Prepared by Public Relations Division, CSSA
Introduction
The scope of this survey is to learn more about CSSA new comer policies and CSSA other activities. CSSA is also interested in collecting general ideas from the members. Currently, most CSSA policies did not have any statistics support. CSSA designed and sent out the survey in late June, 2006. The final report will be published in CSSA website and CSSA BBS.
Purpose
Throughout this survey, we want to achieve the following goals:
1)
To try out a way that CSSA could
gather opinions from Chinese students at
2) To get opinion about new comer affairs for making the policy for the following years
3) To collect general comments about CSSA.
Method
Public Relations Division was responsible for designing and implementing the survey and also this final report.
1) CSSA made the decision of conducting the survey in the early of June 2006.
2) Xiaodan Zhuang came up with the guidelines, including goals and issues, about the survey, with discussion with other officers of CSSA. Qin Wei from Public Relations Division designed the questionnaire and implemented online, followed by further discussion and revision in Public Relations Division.
3) The survey is distributed through CSSA maillists as well as CSSA website, aiming at active Chinese students in our community, who will respond the survey.
Finding
We received 95 valid responses from Chinese students. Responders provide valuable information about CSSA new Chinese student policy.
Among the valid responders, 25% said they ever picked up new students. 18% said they ever provided temp housing. As for airport pick-up, though more than half responders did not ask for monetary compensation, about 35% suggested some compensation would be nice. As for temporary housing, more than 70% thinks it’s necessary to pay volunteers and about 30% votes for an increase in the suggested $10 daily compensation.
In a multiple choice about information to be detailed for newcorns, 50% pick taxi&bus, 80% pick housing, 60% pick shopping, 46% pick dining and 64% pick safety. Other suggested content (specified by responders in option “OTHER”) include English learning(2%), finance(1%), insurance and warning about WFG(2%), job(1%), strategies for living more meaningful(1%), sports(1%), textbooks(1%), where to go for information(1%).
This survey also provides much information about opinions about CSSA. 87% visit CSSA BBS at least once a week. For a multiple choice about desirable info source about CSSA, 58% pick BBS, 34% website, 77% maillist, 15% posters. 73% are somewhat or very satisfied with CSSA. 41% would love to be a volunteer at CSSA. 50% are not sure, depending on schedule. 6% decline.
In the meanwhile, we receive various suggestions including:
More survey, more activities to popularize our culture, more clubs, more movies, more prompt response, more evenly distributed work over the year, more reliable BBS, more social events, more non-sport outdoor activities, wiser use of official CSSA maillist, more up-to-date website.
Summary
This survey proves to be a practical way to gather opinions in our community. It’s welcomed by most responders, though two responders pointed out some bad design and misspelling. Public Relations Division at CSSA will continue such surveys in the future when necessary.
The results of the newcorn-related issues are forwarded to New Student Division, and are already reflected in the CSSA newcorn policy published at UIUC@Zixia. Ongoing revision of Newcorn Handbook is expected to reflect as much the suggestion as possible.
All the opinions and suggestion for CSSA will be brought to CSSA committee meeting. And we expect to make improvements, learning from these comments.
Please contact the following people with any related questions or comments:
Qin Wei Public Relations Division, CSSA piano.qin-at-gmail.com
Xiaodan Zhuang Vice President, CSSA carlzhuang –at- gmail.com