UNL students participate in a wide variety of experiential learning opportunities and the University wishes to capture information from them regarding this important piece of their college experience. To facilitate this, Career Services launched a new survey on experiences in early April 2020.
We are asking all advisors, career and academic, to help prompt advisees to complete the survey and understand the importance of reporting their experiences! Feel free to forward this to anyone who you think can help us in our data gathering efforts.
Encourage students to report on their experiences through the Experiences Survey by clicking here.
Here are some answers to FAQs you might have:
• Why are we doing this?
o Student experiential learning activities affect UNL rankings and accreditation and can affect the value of attending and attaining a degree at UNL.
o This data will be shared so advisors and departments can more accurately tell the career and experiential narratives taking place in their units.
• What info is being captured?
o General information on Internships, Co-ops, Research, and Volunteerism is being captured.
o The survey specifically asks about experiences the student has had during the spring 2020 term. They should not report anything upcoming or further back. Every term, the time frame will be updated and clarified.
• How is it being captured?
o Student information is being captured through a survey in MyRed.
o They can complete the survey multiple times, but cannot edit their results. So if they did both an internship AND research in spring 2020, they can simply click the link a second time to report their second experience.
• How will it be used?
o Data will be used to understand what types of experiential learning Huskers engage in, how often, for how long, when, and where.
o Unique student data will be kept, as always, confidential and will not be shared to outside entities, only aggregate data may be shared.
Please contact Mallory Wallace at mallory@unl.edu if you have questions.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/prb7