Share your first-year or graduate student experience

Note: The text below is a sample of the email first-year students received via their @mylaurier.ca email and is to be used for reference only. Make sure you check your @mylaurier.ca email for your survey email and link.

I am writing to request your participation in the CUSC-CCREU 2022 Survey of First Year Students. This study is being conducted at more than 35 Canadian institutions to help us learn about our students and their experiences at university. By completing this survey, you are making a substantial contribution to future research that identifies changes and patterns in the experience of undergraduate students from Canadian institutions.

You can participate in this important project by clicking on the link below and completing the questionnaire. This survey has been approved by the Office of Research Services under file #2021-97 as per University Policy 8.2. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. By completing the questionnaire, you will automatically be entered into a draw to win one of three Laurier Bookstore gift cards valued at $100 each. Your contact information will only be used to notify you, should you be the winner of the draw and will not be associated with your survey responses. The winners of the gift cards will be contacted via email sometime after early April 2022. All emails will be destroyed once the winners have been determined.

Your participation in this survey is completely voluntary and you do not have to answer every question. Since this survey employs e-based data collection techniques, the confidentiality and privacy of data cannot be guaranteed during web-based transmission. The de-identified results will be retained indefinitely by Laurier’s Institutional Research and Planning Office. This office will make every effort to keep survey responses confidential, although absolute confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. Survey responses will be aggregated and shared in a final report seen by participating CUSC member institutions, senior administrators at WLU and staff members within the Institutional Research and Planning Office. To complete the survey, click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your browser. If you are asked for your survey access code, it will be the last 8 characters of the link. The survey link below is unique to you and can only be used once.

To complete the survey, click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your browser. If you are asked for your survey access code, it will be the last 8 characters of the link. The survey link below is unique to you and can only be used once.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Roshen Epaarachchige at repaarachchige@wlu.ca or 519.884.0710 x3647. All of your responses are confidential. If you have problems accessing the survey, or if you require this survey in an alternate format due to a disability, please contact Nicholas Borodenko of PRA, the research company CUSC-CCREU hired to conduct this research, at cusc@pra.ca.

Thank you in advance for providing this important feedback.

Sincerely,
Ivan Joseph
Vice President, Student Affairs

Note: The text below is a sample of the email graduate students received via their @mylaurier.ca email and is to be used for reference only. Make sure you check your @mylaurier.ca email for your survey email and link.

You are being invited to participate in the 2022 Canadian Graduate and Professional Student Survey (CGPSS). Graduate students from Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) and many other universities across Canada are being invited to complete this survey. This survey is being conducted by CRIEVAT on behalf of participating universities across Canada. The purpose of the survey is to obtain information from graduate students about their activities and the benefits they gain from their university experiences. We intend to use information from this survey to improve the graduate educational experience for you and future students.

If you agree to participate we ask that you complete a web-based survey that will take about 20 minutes to complete (details below). Responses will be logged, such that reminder notices are not sent to those of you who have responded. CRIEVAT has been provided with some identifying information, including your name and student email address. All identifying information will be removed prior to analyses. Your responses are strictly confidential and will not be attributed to you personally. Survey responses will be aggregated and shared in a final report seen by participating institutions, senior administrators at WLU and staff members within the Institutional Research and Planning Office.

Participation in this study is voluntary. You may choose not to participate, or choose not to answer any questions or withdraw at any time. If you do not wish to respond to particular questions, please skip them and continue with the next question. If you do not wish to participate, and do not wish to receive a reminder, please respond to your email invitation with 'Do Not Wish to Participate' in the subject line. Completion of the survey indicates your consent to participate in this research and to have your responses included in the final survey dataset. There are no known risks to participating in this research.

By participating in this survey, you will automatically be entered into a draw to win one of three gift cards to the Laurier Bookstore valued at $100 each. Your contact information will only be used to notify you, should you be the winner of the draw and will not be associated with your survey responses. Winners will be determined by random draw and the winners will be notified by email no later than April 29, 2022.

This survey has been approved by the Office of Research Services under file #2021-81 as per University Policy 8.2. CRIEVAT will destroy all electronic records of student names and email addresses once the survey is completed. Data will be kept by Laurier’s Institutional Research and Planning Office indefinitely to facilitate longitudinal analysis.

If you would like more information about the survey, please contact Roshen Epaarachchige, Institutional Research and Planning, repaarachchige@wlu.ca or 519.884.0710 x3647. If you need technical support or if you require the survey in an alternate format due to a disability, please contact cgpss-ecemd@fse.ulaval.ca

This survey will be available for your input until March 29, 2022. The survey has multiple pages, and you do not have to complete the survey in one sitting.

Please enter your PIN to begin the survey: (Your Personal Identification Number was sent to you in the email invitation for this survey. To reduce the risk of typing errors, we suggest that you copy your PIN from your invitation email and paste it into the login space above.)

Sincerely,

Douglas Deutschman
Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Kristine Lund
Principal-Dean, Martin Luther University College

Ivan Joseph
Vice President, Student Affairs