Diversity Studies at Edmonds Community College
EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FALL 2000 STUDENT AND FACULTY DIVERSITY SURVEYS
Two student surveys and one faculty survey were administered in the Fall of 2000 to address the following four goals laid out in the instructional section of EdCC's Institutional Diversity Plan:
- to review our current cultural diversity requirement;
- to refine cultural diversity outcomes and begin assessing these outcomes systematically;
- to determine the need for additional courses which emphasize the "knowledge" domain;
- to determine needs/desires for related faculty development opportunities.
Many of the ideas presented in the surveys grew out of workshops offered through the American Association of Colleges & University (AAC&U) Summer Institute, "Boundaries and Borderlands," at Brown University, Rhode Island, in 2000. Especially helpful were Debra Humphreys' work regarding national research on diversity requirements in the U.S. and Jack Meacham's on assessing diversity courses. We also benefited from a review of AAC&U's Diversity Digest and their Diversity Web.
SURVEY INSTRUMENTS
STUDENT SURVEY 1 - given to 1,125 students in 50 courses in week 2 of the quarter
STUDENT SURVEY 2 - given to 747 students in 45 of the 50 courses surveyed earlier in weeks 10 and 11
FACULTY SURVEY - given to all full-time faculty who were teaching at EdCC in the Fall of 2000 (n=117) and to part-time faculty who had taught three or more years at the college or were teaching two or more courses Fall quarter (n=139)
REPORT - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - highlights the major findings from the student and faculty surveys
