Your voice is very important to institutional decision-making at UB. At any one time, there are a variety of surveys and focus group activities being conducted as a means of documenting how UB students, alumni, faculty, and staff think and feel about campus issues. Results of these surveys and focus groups are shared in student oriented reports posted on this site under Survey Says… and more generally with the university community via Office of Institutional Analysis Briefs and articles in campus publications.
Our surveys currently open to UB students, alumni, faculty, and staff are listed below. If you would like to participate in a survey but you did not receive an invitation, please feel free to do so by clicking the title to open the survey.
Newly Enrolled Transfer Student Questionnaire
Senior Survey
For additional survey opportunities, please go to MyOpinion.
Focus groups are small groups of similar people (e.g., freshmen, alumni, etc.) gathered together to answer focused questions about a single topic. The following groups are currently recruiting new members:
UB Advocates
Campus Dining and Shops Advisory Group
These documents communicate the results of surveys and focus groups:
UB Advocates provide "student voice"
Quick Facts: Newly Enrolled Transfer Students (Fall2006) (PDF)
For more detailed survey results, facts, and statistics describing UB, see:
Office of Institutional Analysis Briefs
University Factbook
UB Advocates is a community of students willing to advise the University at Buffalo on issues important to both current and future UB students. UB Advocates are student “experts” from all academic levels, freshman through graduate/professional, who provide timely feedback regarding university issues. This feedback is solicited via three different mechanisms: (1) in-depth focus groups designed around a single issue or question; (2) comprehensive paper or web-based surveys which may address a variety of issues or many aspects of a single issue; and (3) participant observation, in which students use campus services or attend campus-wide events and provide evaluative feedback. Students are generally recruited in the fall and asked to maintain a year-long commitment to the group.
Based on feedback from UB Advocates, staff members develop reports that are shared with the university community. These are the reports based on UB Advocates activities during the 2006-07 academic year:
To become a UB Advocate, please complete the web-based application form.
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