Data Collection Challenge
Re-envisioning Data Collection
The Next Lives Here strategic direction is guiding our campus community in reimagining urban public institutions. It’s challenging our students, faculty, and staff to teach, learn, create, and operate in new ways.
The 2019 NLH Faculty & Staff Insights Challenge invites current faculty and staff to rethink and reinvent how UC takes the pulse of our community’s culture so we can judiciously shape UC’s future. Lunch and snacks provided.
Be Bold. Be Next.
The Charge
How might the university use new and innovative data collection methods to gather robust insights at higher rates?
Your Goal
Traditional e-mail surveys have approximately a 3% - 10% response rate on UC’s campus. Our goal for new methods of data collection is participation from at least 70% of faculty, staff, and students.
Challenge Framing
- Embrace a forward-leaning mindset: Think beyond typical email surveys and focus groups.
- Leverage Differences: Capitalize on the diverse academic and life experiences of your teammates.
- Expand the way we engage our community: Use a unique approach for gathering student feedback.
Challenge Considerations
- Diversity: There are many different types of faculty, staff, and students who respond differently to various feedback collection methods. Consider how both undergrads and graduate students who study part-time or full-time in different disciplines and parts of campus will respond to your proposed solution(s). Weigh how faculty and staff who are unionized or non-unionized and work part-time or full-time in different disciplines, divisions, offices, and campuses will respond to your proposed solution(s).
- Innovation: Emailed surveys get lost and are not a preferred method of communication. There are better products, technologies (even some yet to be discovered!), and techniques that may make more sense.
- Timeline: Feedback collection will occur in January 2020, thus your promotion and collection methods must be capable of quick turnaround.
Entry, Selection, & Participation
Thirty (30) students from a diverse pool across campus will be selected to participate.
Apply online by no later than 5:00 PM on Monday, November 4, 2019.
Applicants must be able to participate from 4:00 – 8:00 pm on Monday, November 18 at the Niehoff Studio (Dinner and snacks provided).
All participants who complete the challenge will receive $50. Opportunities for additional bonus awards and incentives will be available during the challenge. This competition is open to UC undergraduate and graduate students.
Selected students will be notified via email by Friday, November 8.
Challenge Details
Thirty (30) students will be selected to participate in an 4-hour challenge on November 18th.
Competitors will be divided into teams comprised of various backgrounds and challenged to brainstorm, prototype, and present proposed action plans for data collection and promotion.
We invite participants to think about the UC environment, including how students live, work, and play. You may focus your approach on one solution or devise multiple solutions targeted at specific audiences.
We look forward to seeing your reimagined and creative ideas to collect feedback from our UC community!
Entry, Selection, & Participation
Thirty (30) faculty and staff from a diverse pool across campuses will be selected to participate.
Apply online by no later than 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 12, 2019.
Applicants must be able to participate from Noon – 4:00pm on Monday, November 25, 2019 at the Faculty Enrichment Center (Lunch and snacks provided).
Selected faculty and staff will be notified via email and by November 18.
Challenge Details
Thirty (30) faculty and staff will be selected to participate in an 4-hour challenge on November 25th.
Participants will be divided into teams comprised of various backgrounds and challenged to brainstorm, prototype, and present proposed action plans for data collection and promotion.
We invite participants to think about the UC environment, including how faculty and staff live, work, and play. You may focus your approach on one solution or devise multiple solutions targeted at specific audiences.
We look forward to seeing your reimagined and creative ideas to collect feedback from our UC community!