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CAMPUS & WORKPLACE CULTURE SURVEY


 

What is the CWC Survey?

Here at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all members of our community feel a sense of belonging, respect, support and value. 

The CWC Survey was administered to CU Anschutz students, residents/fellows, faculty and staff in fall 2021. The goal of the survey was to gather information to help us understand our campus culture. The survey effort continues, and is led by the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement and the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness.

We have analyzed the results and are using survey findings to better understand our existing culture, and identify strengths and priorities to achieve a more just, equitable and inclusive culture at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are integral parts of the CU strategic plan. We have developed action plans based on survey results, and will monitor progress through resulting initiatives and future surveys.

EXPLORE SURVEY DASHBOARD

Our thanks to the more than 4,500 faculty, staff, students, and trainees who took part in the fall 2021 CWC Survey. 

You can explore our fall 2021 survey data and response rates using the innovative dashboard tool. 

Click here to access the dashboard and take a look around. 

Strict internal safeguards are in place to protect participant privacy in all survey reporting.

Questions? Contact us at cwcsurvey@cuanschutz.edu.


●     April - October 2021: survey preparation and planning

●     October - November 2021: survey period

●     January 2022: overall response rates shared with CU Board of Regents

●     February 2022 CU Board of Regents Meeting: preliminary data presentation on questions relating to metrics in CU systemwide strategic plan presentation

●     February - April 2022: survey data validation and analysis; data visualization tool development

●     April 2022 CU Board of Regents Meeting: full survey data presentation

●     April - late summer 2022: action planning and recommendation development

●    July 2022 CU Board of Regents Meeting: action plan presentation

  • September 2022 Action Plans Developed: schools/colleges finalized plans
  • December 2022 Action Plans Presented to Chancellor & Chancellor’s DEICE Leadership Council

 

During spring 2022, we are analyzed the results, including cleaning and validating the data, and understanding the relationship of the data to the representation of the overall group sizes. In addition, the survey team created dashboards that enable the sharing of survey data with the campus community.

We are committed to allowing for as much data transparency as possible within the data security confines outlined at the survey’s launch - particularly that data from response groups of fewer than 10 individuals is never shown and that all results remain anonymized.

We have developed action plans that are informed by our findings and aimed at creating a more strategic, systemic, sustainable, equitable and inclusive campus culture

 

 

 

What steps are being taken to protect the anonymity of my survey responses?

  • Survey participants' privacy is of utmost importance to us, and strict internal safeguards to ensure that privacy.

  • No one outside of the CU Denver | Anschutz Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) staff—no administrators, supervisors or faculty—has had or will have access to survey respondents’ identities or to files that may connect names or email addresses with answers to survey questions.

  • Members of the OIRE team managed the survey email distribution list, wherein it was recorded who had and had not completed the survey questionnaire.

  • As participants submitted their surveys, the identifying information that permitted the database manager to keep track of who did and did not respond to the survey was automatically deleted. In other words, each case in the final data file is an anonymous case. In addition, the data file is encrypted and stored in a secure, encrypted drive which only OIRE staff can access.

  • Questionnaire responses are aggregated for statistical analysis and reporting. We aggregated the data to groups of 10 or more responses in order to maintain the anonymity of survey participants. If any demographic group or combination of group characteristics had fewer than 10 individuals, those data were not reported. OIRE will not provide any findings that would risk making someone identifiable due to the uniqueness of their demographic characteristics, years at CU, faculty rank, job category, department, major or a combination of those factors. Your anonymity is our first duty of care and will be protected in all reports resulting from this survey.

  • Please email cwcsurvey@cuanschutz.edu for more information regarding steps taken to ensure anonymity and confidentiality.

  • The CU Denver | Anschutz Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) currently safeguards any sensitive employment and student data it accesses by using state-of-the-art data security protocols. The survey platform, Qualtrics, meets Vendor Security Assessment Questionnaire (VSAQ) data standards. Data are encrypted in transit and at rest.  Read more about Qualtrics security

  • Now that the 2021 survey has closed, data have been encrypted in transit to OIRE. The full database of anonymized responses is held by OIRE in encrypted form on their secure server. The de-identified data will be stored to allow investigation of trends by comparison with future surveys.

Please email cwcsurvey@cuanschutz.edu for more information about data security.

To encourage participation in the fall 2021 survey and thank participants for taking part, CU Anschutz leadership made $15,000 in funding available for five organizations serving our campus and community. More than 4,500 individuals made this funding pool available to the groups through their participation in the survey. Read about the groups that this funding is supporting.

    CWC Frequently Asked Questions

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