Survey Recruitment and Administration Policy Announced

The University at Buffalo is committed to ensuring that surveys are methodologically sound and of good quality; promote inter-departmental awareness and cooperation; minimize survey fatigue and collection of duplicate data or pre-existing data; ensure appropriate methods of recruitment, distribution, and use of survey results; and maintain a thorough and accessible record of survey tools and findings. Survey fatigue, the decreased willingness to participate in surveys, is a constant concern because reduced response rates compromise the usefulness of any data collected.

This policy applies to all internal or external entities that want to implement surveys to UB students, faculty, staff and/or alumni.

Academic research conducted by faculty or students and surveys conducted by students as part of an official UB course assignment are subject to this policy only if the projects involve soliciting 500 or more total UB students, faculty, staff, and/or alumni as participants in a survey or as recipients of an email invitation requesting their participation in a survey.