Hundreds of colleges and universities are concluding their NSSE 2021 administration, which featured a variety of updates, including:

• Four new items related to effective teaching practices have been added to NSSE to explore student experiences across multiple course modalities (online, face-to-face, & hybrid), as well as an item to help identify each respondent’s primary learning modality.
• A revised student background question allows students to better represent a disability status.
• The option for schools to draft their own open-ended survey question to solicit student feedback, providing an excellent qualitative dimension to NSSE results.
• Three new Topical Modules on critical higher education topics: Career and Workforce Preparation; Coping with COVID; and Experiences with Online Learning.

Visit the NSSE survey posted online to review these changes in closer detail.

For those planning ahead, remember that NSSE 2022 registration will open this summer in early July.