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Green says the next step will be to design a survey with Mahan and the other seven student committee members that will be released to all undergraduates this month...
While some proponents of keeping the survey results secret might argue that presenting data on student satisfaction with their House masters or senior tutors could lead to uncomfortable embarrassment of these individuals, it is a cost worth enduring. Public announcement of survey results inherently employs both the carrot of praise and the stick of embarrassment to encourage improvements in the residential experience and the academic program...
...importance of public scrutiny and submit their courses to the CUE guide evaluation, which allows students to rate classes and professors, generating data that is circulated to all undergraduates the following year. Students find the CUE data valuable in making course selections, just as they would find the senior survey results beneficial in identifying deficiencies and lobbying for effective improvements at the College...
Other colleges make an effort to collect and publicly release senior survey data. Columbia University’s Office of Student Affairs conducts an optional Enrolled Student Survey and then begins an open process of discussion and interpretation of the results, including focus groups to address the issues raised by the survey, according to the Columbia Spectator. Many state schools are also required to release data to meet institutional accountability requirements and some make them available to prospective students on the internet. When schools like Harvard refrain from sharing their data, however, they cannot help but appear as though they...
Currently, no administrative discussion is underway about the logic of making the senior survey results public. As Wolcowitz wrote in an e-mail, “As far as I know, the question of public reports has never been discussed. The data as they exist are really not very helpful, except with some summary statistics and interpretation, and no one has prepared such an interpretive essay.” Students and faculty concerned with improving Harvard will find value in an analysis of the raw data and an open discussion of the results. Harvard ought not keep valuable information from...