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NSSE Administration at UNI

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) has been administered through the Office of Academic Assessment since the spring semester of 2006. 

UNI provides a database with names and e-mail addresses of first-year and senior students; NSSE sends invitations and reminders to the students, beginning in early February.  The survey is completed on the Web; UNI receives data and reports for the survey administration in September.

NSSE data are used by the UNI Diversity Council, the First-Year Council, Advising Services, the University Writing Committee, the UNI Strategic Planning Committee, and other groups on campus. NSSE results are used, along with other data, for assessment of learning in the Liberal Arts Core at UNI. 

The most current data is from administration of the survey in Spring 2012. NSSE was sent to 1806 first-year students and 3530 seniors.  Five hundred thirty-three first year students (30%) and nine hundred sixty-nine seniors (27%) responded, for an overall response rate of 28%.  Data from the Spring 2013 administration of NSSE will be available in Fall 2013.

Selected highlights of NSSE data can be found at by clicking here.

For specific information on results from NSSE surveys, use UNI CatID to access https://www.uni.edu/assessment/data/nssedata.shtml (multi-year information) and http://www.ir.uni.edu/dbweb/nsse/ (interactive database) or check with the Office of Institutional Research.