Student Column: Get Involved! Get Informed! ICA Student Member Survey Just Launched in January 2013
The ICA Student Affairs Committee (SAC) has recently launched the 2013 Student Member Survey! This year’s Student Member Survey has been revised and updated from the past surveys to more accurately reflect opinions of student members. With the survey, the SAC aims to receive feedback from student members to create a more meaningful ICA experience for them.
The survey asks questions about four major areas at the heart of student member involvement, and are as follows:
Section 1: ICA Student Affairs Committee
This section of the survey asks student members about their awareness of SAC activities. The SAC activities include new member/graduate student orientation and the student reception at annual ICA conferences, monthly student columns in ICA newsletters, fundraising activities as well as student member survey creation and analysis. This section also asks questions about how students knew about these activities and whether they felt they have benefitted from participating.
Section 2: ICA Monthly Newsletter
This section of the survey inquires about student members' reading patterns and regularity of the ICA online newsletters and student columns in the newsletters. Student members can also offer some insights on what topics can be covered in future student columns. The SAC hopes to incorporate some of the topics proposed in this survey to assist student members' intellectual growth and better serve their needs and concerns.
Section 3: ICA Conference Student Activities
This section specifically asks about student members' past conference experiences – 2012 ICA conference in Phoenix - and whether student members took advantages of Master Classes that were offered in Phoenix last year. It also inquires about their awareness, attendance, and satisfactory levels of new member/graduate student orientation and student reception at the Phoenix conference.
Section 4: Demographic Information
At the end of the survey, some demographic information such as age, gender, and ethnicity is asked to get a sense of how diverse our student members’ profiles are.
The ICA Student Member Survey is currently ongoing, so we strongly encourage all student members to provide input to the Student Affairs Committee by taking the survey. This is a great way to get engaged and express your voice within ICA. The Committee promises to reflect on your comments and make plans for future student activities accordingly.
The 2013 ICA Student Member Survey can be found here:
HTTP://www.icahdq.org/cgi-shl/TWServer.exe?Run:STUDENT2012
The survey will take approximately 10 - 15 minutes to complete. The SAC appreciates your participation!