"We rely upon NSSE and FSSE data to encourage the campus community to take responsibility for student learning and engagement."
--Margaret W. Cohen, Associate Provost Emerita, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Description of the video:
Hi, everybody. My name is Allison BrckaLorenz, and I'm the director for both the College and University Teaching Environment, CUTE, and the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, or FSSE, assessment projects. If you're here watching this video, I assume it's because you're interested in registering for one or both of these projects, because our form has changed a little bit since the last time you may have seen it, I just wanted to record this quick little video to walk you through it and warn you of what's to come when you register. So first, we're going to identify your institution. But before we get any further, I want to say, make sure you have contact information for two different contacts at your institution. We'll require that. If you're registering for FSSE the faculty survey of student engagement, you'll also need an estimate of the number of faculty you intend to have us survey, that'll just be for a cost estimate. Then finally, you may want to preview our pricing information as well as our participation agreement online because we'll have you agree to having read those and to all of those terms. But to get started, we do want to identify institution. We have eligible institutions in this long list, and I suppose you could go search for it. But you can actually type in keywords. I'm going to pull up one of our test institutions here. But you'll find your institution in the list just to confirm that the institution that you pulled from the list is truly your institution and not say a similarly named institution. We'll just have you verify the IPEDs number or the ID number that gets pulled up. Type that in. And we'll try to confirm. There we give it just a second and here's where you're going to be able to choose which of the assessment projects you're interested in registering for. You can choose CUTE, which is an assessment of the environments and needs and supports for your faculty, or there's the FSSE, which is the companion to NSSE and an assessment of what your faculty are doing to contribute to student engagement on your campus. The registration forms are very similar, but FSSE is slightly more complicated because it includes that population file estimate, so I'm just going to register for this, but regardless of which of the projects, the registration is quite similar. As I summarized, you're going to need a couple campus contacts. You'll need the estimate for the number of faculty surveyed and that's for FSSE only, and you'll need to complete our participation agreement. Those three things are required for complete registration. Later, we're going to have options for you to do customization, choosing your modules, your timeline, different things about recruitment messages, uploading your population file. But those things aren't required quite yet. Just a preview of what's to come. The first thing that'll pop up is the campus project manager. This is the primary contact for your institution and where we're going to do most of our communicating with, so the person that will be making decisions, uploading the population file, things like that. This is the primary person that we'll send all e mail communications to. Now, if we do have information for CPM already for your institution on file, that information is preloaded here. But you do have the option to change who that contact is at this point or make any edits if there's anything you need to change about the information. So I am going to keep myself here as this contact for the CPM. Nothing I really need to change in my name, all my office, my mailing address. I will say our institution is going through the really frustrating act of changing all of our email addresses, so I will make a change to that. Instead of at indiana.edu, we are now at iu.edu, so I'm going to make that edit. But before you're done, it'll just show you again what the contact information is, so you can look over it and make sure everything looks okay. Go to the next one. Next, you'll have your campus administrative contact or the CAC. This is, think of this as a backup person. If we can't get ahold of the CPM, we'll contact the CAC, but they're only going to get a few of the contacts from us, just major contacts like registration and that the survey is about to launch. We won't contact this person much, but it is nice to have a second contact if we need to. The operation of this is similar. You're going to have your information prefilled if we've got that. Otherwise, you can add the information here, first and last name, making any edits that you need to. If you don't need to make edits, you can just skip through all of these. Here's my final information and I approve that. Great. The third contact that we might ask for that we will ask for, but you might not fill in is a billing contact. We will send the invoice for our projects to your CPM unless you give us a billing contact. This is optional if you have somebody else that you'd like us to send our invoices to. You can leave this blank. It is not required. But again, if we have information, it'll be pre filled. Otherwise, you can add a person or make edits to the person in this form. Approve. And then the final thing is a little bit new if you haven't registered for one of our projects in a while, because all of our reports and data are in these online dashboards, sometimes people want to be able to share that with other people, maybe in a presentation or something like that. If you have a shared office email address that you'd like us to give access to the data and results, we can do that. This again is optional. You don't need to do it. Your CPM and CAC will have access to the dashboards data and results, but if there is another person, and we would recommend a shared office email that multiple people can access. You can enter that here and we will make them an account. This is only true for a FSSE registration, but we do need a sample estimate. I'll just pretend that I have 125 faculty at my institution, that I intend to have you survey or have me survey, I guess. The reason we ask for that is so that we can calculate this cost estimate for you. There will be a cost estimate for CUTE as well if that's the project you're registering for, but it's not based on population file size, so we won't need that for an estimate. Final bit here is just to agree to the three parts of our agreement here that you have read our participation agreement, which is linked here if you need to take a look. You have two unique contacts. Please give us two different people for CPM and CAC because we do need that backup contact. Putting yourself twice is not that helpful. Then you also agree to our pricing and administration fees and our pricing structures here, including a refund policy if you end up having to withdraw. To go to the next page, you do need to agree to all three of those. That is the end. You're going to get an automated email from us after you've submitted with all of the responses that you've sent, and then we will be able to contact you, approve your registration, and get you to the next steps, customizing your administrations for both CUTE and FSSE. If you have any questions about any of this or any other aspect of our project, check out our websites or send us an email. We really look forward to working with you.
"We rely upon NSSE and FSSE data to encourage the campus community to take responsibility for student learning and engagement."
--Margaret W. Cohen, Associate Provost Emerita, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Institutions that participate in NSSE and FSSE in the same year will be charged one $300 registration fee that encompasses both administrations. Beginning in 2022, the $300 registration fee for those participating in both NSSE and FSSE will appear on an institution's FSSE invoice.
Institutions that register for FSSE without NSSE will be charged $300 for registration, in addition to the fees outlined below.
SAMPLE SIZE | COST |
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Fewer than 100 | $1,285 + $1.70 per sampled instructional staff |
100 or more | $1,515 + $1.70 per sampled instructional staff |
FSSE offers two different options for institutions to append additional item sets to their FSSE administration. Institutions can add one Topical Module for no additional charge and a second Topical Module for $275. Institutions that would like to append a set of consortium items will be charged an additional $200.
FSSE may charge a fee to recover additional expenses such as processing late population file corrections.
Date of Withdrawal | Billable Amount |
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Prior to January 1 | $300 registration fee if FSSE-only |
Between January 1 - March 1 | $300 (plus $300 registration fee if FSSE-only) |
After March 1 | 60% of Administration Fee (plus $300 registration fee if FSSE-only) |