Progress and Reporting

A: The HERI Staff Climate Survey (SCS), and HERI Faculty Survey were developed at the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A:  We administered the surveys for the following reasons: 

• WSCUC requires that we examine institutional climate and act on the findings.
• The DEI steering committee wanted to assess important variables such as sense of belonging.
• We needed a mechanism for tracking progress on important institutional priorities such as our strategic plan and goals emerging from the Cozen report.

We will use (and are already using) the data to design interventions that address domains requiring improvement.

A: CSUSB did not have the ability to omit questions from the survey. In using the nationally standardized tool, we were required to ask every question in the survey.

A: Only questions that had a significantly large pool of respondents are included in the reports so as not to compromise anonymity.

A: To protect the confidentiality of participants in the survey, raw data will not be made available, which is consistent with how the survey was advertised during the open period.

A: Disaggregated data are being built into dashboards that will be posted in Spring 2025, ensuring confidentiality can be maintained (e.g., disaggregating based on large enough sample sizes).

A: To protect the confidentiality of participants in the survey, raw data will not be made available, which is consistent with how the survey was advertised during the open period.

A: We administered the surveys in March 2024 and expect to re-administer the survey in Year 4 or 5 of our strategic plan (AY 26-27 or 27-28).