GPSC Institute

The GPSC Institute is a centralized location for GPSC to send out and collect the data from surveys and assessment projects of the student body and other sources of information that we use in order to make informed decisions. Surveys and assessment projects have been conducted throughout GPSC’s history, many of which (from us and our partner/parent departments on campus), are available to see here.

GPSC Institute – Principles

1. All GPSC surveys and assessment projects must be created with the input of GPSC’s Executive Board and the General Council.
2. All GPSC surveys and assessment projects will be presented to the GPSC’s Executive Board and the General Council.
3. GPSC will partner with UA campus groups to develop surveys  and assessment projects under two conditions:
   1) that these campus units do not seek to undermine the results of surveys and assessment projects should those results suggest that the administration at any level has to act in a way against their self-interest,
   2) that the campus groups agree that completed surveys and assessment projects be voted on by the GPSC. The GPSC highly values clear representation of the graduate and professional student experience in order to enhance the life of students and the mission of the university. Therefore, GPSC commits to statistically valid and reliable surveys and assessment projects, meaning adherence to policies that prevent adulteration or modification of results.
4. GPSC commits to adhering to survey and assessment projects results no matter if the results run contrary to GPSC’s stated advocacy.
5. GPSC will commit to having the best surveys and assessment projects on campus. By the “best,” we mean that the surveys and assessment projects we develop on our own or in concert with others with be the most statistically valid and reliable surveys  and assessment projects possible, and the interpretations of those results will be trusted by the graduate and professional students and the wider campus community as non-biased truthful results.
6. GPSC will seek partners to develop surveys and assessment projects who will abide by the principle that surveys and assessment projects conducted about graduate and professional students who seek to understand graduate and professional student experience in order to enhance the life of students and the mission of the university. GPSC will not partner with groups on surveys and assessment projects or publish results of surveys and assessment projects with campus units who seek to undermine the results of surveys and assessment projects should those results suggest that the administration at any level has to act in a way against their self-interest.

Surveys

White papers/Position Statements