Document Type

Report

Publication Date

11-1-2006

Keywords

Alumni, living situation, family status, post-graduation, education, employment, job, skills, future plans, satisfaction, GURs, delays, impediments, major, declaration, student support resources, indebtedness, debt, service organizations

Abstract

Western’s first Alumni Survey was conducted in 1988; it’s development and administration was in response to the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HEC Board) requirement to survey graduates every biennially. Western was done so diligently and reliably since. Twenty years on, as academic concerns have changed, so has the survey; however, the original “fourteen common items” proscribed by the HEC Board have remained. Similarly, the administration of the survey adapted: from a paper-and-pencil only mail-out form to the current on-line and telephone method. Yet regardless of the type of administration, satisfactory response rates have been attained. The current report includes data from the Alumni Survey which was administered online and over the telephone in the Spring of 2006. The alumni who were surveyed graduated within the 2004-2005 academic year; therefore, respondents were anywhere from a year to eighteen months from graduation. There were originally 2,883 alumni total, but 301 were eliminated due to no on bad contact information. There were 364 alumni who took a long online version of the survey, 633 who took a shorter online version of the survey, and 214 who took the phone version of the survey. In total, 1211 alumni took the survey out of 2581, for a response rate of 47%.

Identifier

322

Publisher

Digital object produced by Office of Survey Research, Western Washington University, and made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

College graduates--Washington (State)--Statistics

Title of Series

Technical and research reports (Western Washington University. Office of Institutional Assessment and Testing) ; 2006-06

Genre/Form

Reports

Type

Text

Rights

This resource is provided for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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