CAMPUS & WORKPLACE CULTURE SURVEY

What steps are being taken to protect the anonymity of my survey responses?

• Survey participants' privacy is of utmost importance to us, and strict internal safeguards to ensure that privacy.

• No one outside of the CU Denver | Anschutz Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) staff—no administrators, supervisors or faculty—has had or will have access to survey respondents’ identities or to files that may connect names or email addresses with answers to survey questions.

• Members of the OIRE team managed the survey email distribution list, wherein it was recorded who had and had not completed the survey questionnaire.

• As participants submitted their surveys, the identifying information that permitted the database manager to keep track of who did and did not respond to the survey was automatically deleted. In other words, each case in the final data file is an anonymous case. In addition, the data file is encrypted and stored in a secure, encrypted drive which only OIRE staff can access.

• Questionnaire responses are aggregated for statistical analysis and reporting. We aggregated the data to groups of 10 or more responses in order to maintain the anonymity of survey participants. If any demographic group or combination of group characteristics had fewer than 10 individuals, those data were not reported. OIRE will not provide any findings that would risk making someone identifiable due to the uniqueness of their demographic characteristics, years at CU, faculty rank, job category, department, major or a combination of those factors. Your anonymity is our first duty of care and will be protected in all reports resulting from this survey.

• Please email cwcsurvey@cuanschutz.edu for more information regarding steps taken to ensure anonymity and confidentiality.

• The CU Denver | Anschutz Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (OIRE) currently safeguards any sensitive employment and student data it accesses by using state-of-the-art data security protocols. The survey platform, Qualtrics, meets Vendor Security Assessment Questionnaire (VSAQ) data standards. Data are encrypted in transit and at rest.  Read more about Qualtrics security

• Now that the 2021 survey has closed, data have been encrypted in transit to OIRE. The full database of anonymized responses is held by OIRE in encrypted form on their secure server. The de-identified data will be stored to allow investigation of trends by comparison with future surveys.