FSSE's New Customizable Pathways

The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) was designed to complement the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which is administered to undergraduate students. Prior to 2026, FSSE consisted of a core survey of instructional staff contributions to undergraduate engagement with the option to append optional items sets of interest to participating institutions.

To give more flexibility to institutions to ask their instructional staff questions that are most important to them but keep costs low, FSSE is introducing a new Customizable Pathways survey experience for 2026. In short, FSSE will now have a very brief core survey, and participating institutions can then choose 4-6 content-focused modules of items from a large bank of item sets.

Customizable Pathways Content Modules

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