+ADwAIQ-DOCTYPE html PUBLIC +ACI--//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN+ACIAPg- +ADw-html+AD4- +ADw-head+AD4- +ADw-meta name+AD0AIg-Generator+ACI- content+AD0AIg-SAS Software, see www.sas.com+ACI- sasversion+AD0AIg-9.1+ACIAPg- +ADw-meta http-equiv+AD0AIg-Content-type+ACI- content+AD0AIg-charset+AD0-windows-1252+ACIAPg- +ADw-title+AD4-Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey+ADw-/title+AD4- +ADw-link rel+AD0AIg-stylesheet+ACI- type+AD0AIg-text/css+ACI- href+AD0AIg-https://report.isa.ncsu.edu/master.css+ACIAPg- +ADw-/head+AD4- +ADw-body+AD4- +ADw-div id+AD0AIg-survey+ACIAPg- +ADw-a name+AD0AIg-top+ACIAPgA8-/a+AD4- +ADw-h1+AD4APA-img src+AD0AIg-/UPA/graphics/images/ban+AF8-logo.gif+ACI- alt+AD0AIg-NC State logo+ACIAPgA8-/h1+AD4- +ADw-h1+AD4-Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' +ADw-br+AD4- Future Plans Survey+ADw-br /+AD4- Introduction, Research Methods, and Response Rates+ADw-/h1+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4APA-br /+AD4APA-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4-This series of reports presents findings from the Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey conducted at NC State University. The survey is designed to collect specific information on students' plans following graduation, including detailed information on employment, graduate/professional school attendance, and participation in career-preparation activities while at NC State. This introductory report provides background on the project, which was administered for the first time in Fall 2010, and an overview of the research methods. A separate report, +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-gs+AF8-fps.fall2010.overview.html+ACIAPg-Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey: All Respondents+ADw-/a+AD4-, provides overall results, and the +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-gs+AF8-fps.fall2010.college.html+ACIAPg-College Comparisons+ADw-/a+AD4- report provides results broken down by the college from which the respondent graduated. Select summaries on results by academic department within college are also available in the +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-https://report.isa.ncsu.edu/secure/Survey/fps+AF8-dec10/gs+AF8-fps.fall2010.deptsummary.html+ACIAPg-Department Summaries+ADw-/a+AD4- report. Finally, a copy of the +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-GS+AF8-FPS+AF8-Fall10+AF8-Survey.pdf+ACIAPg-questionnaire +ADw-/a+AD4-is also available online. +ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-h4+AD4-Survey Background+ADw-/h4+AD4- The Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey is a collaborative effort between NC State's Institutional Strategy and Analysis office (UPA) and the University Career Center (UCC). Career service offices in various colleges, specifically the Colleges of Management, Textiles, Design, and Agriculture and Life Sciences, also provided critical support for the project in terms of reviewing the questionnaire and encouraging their graduating seniors to participate in the survey. +ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4- Historically the UCC and the college career service offices used various means to collect information from NC State's seniors on their 'future plans' at the time of their graduation. While these diverse strategies provided useful information for some units, without a systematic, centralized process for collecting information it was difficult to get a good picture of the future plans for NC State graduates as a whole. In addition, rather than having individual units each using their resources to collect information from each of their respective students, centralizing the project in UPA would provide a more efficient and cost-effective mechanism for both administering the survey and providing reports on the results. To accomplish these objectives UPA developed and administered the pilot Future Plans Survey in Fall 2010.+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4- +ADw-h4+AD4-Research Design+ADw-/h4+AD4- Throughout the 2010 Fall semester, UPA worked with UCC and the college career service offices to develop an overall research design and questionnaire that would meet the individual needs of the UCC and colleges as well as that of the University as a whole. The Future Plans Survey is intended to be administered semiannually, coinciding with December and May graduation. In addition, current plans call for a modified version of the survey to be administered in early Fall semester as a follow-up to the December and May surveys for the previous academic year. Specifically, the follow-up survey would be geared towards those December/May survey respondents who said they were intending on finding full-time employment but had not yet done so, as well as to those who had said they were uncertain of their plans. Those who did not participate in the December/May Future Plans Survey would also be invited to participate in the follow-up survey.+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4- UPA is solely responsible for preparing the survey for online administration, identifying the survey population and sending email invitations and reminders about the survey to students as appropriate, collecting and analyzing the data, and preparing and distributing reports on results.+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4- The population for the December and May Future Plans Survey(s) is identified using NC State's Application for Degree file. All undergraduate students who have applied to graduate as of five days prior to graduation day are included in the population. The online survey goes live two weeks prior to graduation day, and is scheduled to close four to six weeks after graduation. The Fall 2010 survey was in the field from December 6, 2010 until January 24, 2011. (Graduation was on December 18.) All students who had applied to graduate by December 6 were sent an email invitation from the UCC over the name of its director. (Those submitting their online Application for Degree between December 6 and December 13 were emailed the invitation on December 13.) UPA also contacted various administrators in the academic colleges and departments (e.g., Assistant Deans for Undergraduate Programs, College and Department Coordinators for Advising) with information about the survey and an invitation to encourage their students to participate in it. The first follow-up reminder email was sent from the UCC to all non-respondents on December 13, and the second from individual career counselors in the UCC and the college career service offices to their specific constituents on December 16. A final reminder was sent to non-respondents about 10 days before the survey closed on January 24, 2011, again coming from the individual career counselors. Copies of the invitation and three follow-up reminders are available +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-gs+AF8-fps.fall2010.emails.doc+ACIAPg-online+ADw-/a+AD4-.+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4- +ADw-h4+AD4-Response Rates (Table 1) +ADw-/h4+AD4- As of December 13, 2010 1,406 students had submitted the online Application for Degree and appeared on target to graduate on December 18. A total of 784 of them participated in the Future Plans Survey, for an overall response rate of 56 percent. Participation in the survey, however, varied substantially by college, ranging from a high of 85 percent in the College of Management, to a low of 39 percent in the College and Agriculture and Life Sciences. As a result, the College of Agriculture and Life Science is underrepresented in the overall results, as their December graduates make up 20 percent of all Fall 2010 graduates and only 14 percent of the survey respondents. The College of Management is overrepresented in the overall results, with their students making up 18 percent of the survey respondents but only 12 percent of the Fall 2010 graduates. The College of Textiles and the College of Engineering are also slightly overrepresented in the survey results, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences slightly underrepresented.+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-h4+AD4-Table 1: Response Rate, Overall and by College+ADw-/h4+AD4- +ADw-table class+AD0AIg-Table mid+ACI- cellspacing+AD0AIg-0+ACI- cellpadding+AD0AIg-3+ACI- border+AD0AIg-1+ACIAPg- +ADw-colgroup+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-col+AD4- +ADw-/colgroup+AD4- +ADw-thead+AD4- +ADw-tr+AD4- +ADw-th class+AD0AIg-c Header+ACI- scope+AD0AIg-col+ACIAPg-College/School+ADw-/th+AD4- +ADw-th class+AD0AIg-c Header+ACI- scope+AD0AIg-col+ACIAPg-Fall 2010+ADw-br+AD4- Graduating+ADw-br+AD4- Class+ACoAPA-/th+AD4- +ADw-th class+AD0AIg-c Header+ACI- scope+AD0AIg-col+ACIAPg-Percent+ADw-br+AD4- of+ADw-br+AD4- Population+ADw-/th+AD4- +ADw-th class+AD0AIg-c Header+ACI- scope+AD0AIg-col+ACIAPg-Survey +ADw-br+AD4-Respondents+ADw-/th+AD4- +ADw-th 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+ADw-span class+AD0AIg-ital+ACIAPgAq-The number of students who had applied to graduate in Fall 2010 as of December 13, 2010.+ADw-/span+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4APA-br /+AD4APA-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4-For more information on the Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey contact:+ADw-br /+AD4-Dr. Nancy Whelchel, Associate Director for Survey Research+ADw-br /+AD4-Institutional Strategy and Analysis+ADw-br /+AD4-Box 7002+ADw-br /+AD4-NCSU+ADw-br /+AD4-Phone: (919) 515-4184+ADw-br /+AD4-Email: +ADw-a href+AD0AIg-mailto:nancy+AF8-whelchel+AEA-ncsu.edu+ACIAPg-Nancy+AF8-Whelchel+AEA-ncsu.edu+ADw-/a+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4-Posted: February, 2011+ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4APA-a href+AD0AIg-index.html+ACIAPg-Return to Fall 2010 Graduating Seniors' Future Plans Survey Table of Contents Page+ADw-/a+AD4- +ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4APA-a href+AD0AIg-http://upa.ncsu.edu/srvy+ACIAPg-Return to UPA Survey Page+ADw-/a+AD4- +ADw-/p+AD4- +ADw-p+AD4APA-a href+AD0AIg-http://upa.ncsu.edu/+ACIAPg-Return to UPA Home 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