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Institutions interested in administering the College + University Teaching Environment survey (CUTE) to the instructional staff at their institution can begin the process at the form below (coming soon!) This form allows for both spring and fall administrations of CUTE.

You will need the following information to complete the registration form: information for two institutional contacts and an optional billing contact, the month that you would like us to administer CUTE (exact dates to be chosen later), and agreement to our terms of participation.

Description of the video:

Hey everybody, My name is Allison BrckaLorenz and I'm the Director of the college and university teaching environment survey. And if you're here, I assume that's because you're interested in acute administration. So I recorded this video just as a quick start to show how you can get registered, what you need to do, what you need to know to get ready things that you can do for customization, everything you need to know for successful acute administration. So if you're wondering what is q, I can tell you a little bit about it, but I knew kind of already know. College and university teaching environment survey looks at four different aspects of a healthy teach an environment. But what's most important is that those four pieces are imbedded within an institution climate for diversity. That climate for diversity really permeates throughout everything. So it's important that we're in touch with that. But these components are important in that they can really inspire a lot of great things for teaching positive motivations for teaching. Greater satisfaction with teaching environments where people are collegial and talk about and work on it and reflect on teaching together. And really, I think he can help improve inequities in the professoriate. There are many systems in place that prevent people or devote, demotivate people from doing their best work. And this is one way that we can start tackling that findings from this can hopefully inform the field of higher education in general about what teaching climates are like at colleges and universities. But I'm really hoping that it can provide some actionable information to institutions that want to do some work improving or checking in on their own teaching environments on their own campuses. So I have a little picture of our frameworks that up here that shows all the different aspects. And they've all been pulled from research on what we know about teaching environments and pen of how we've categorized them as part of our survey. So the first step is going to be contact approval. We have for our very first year this year, a new dashboard system using Qualtrics. So everyone's going to need to get contact information in there first. So the first thing you do and you go to the contact approval form is you're going to want to find your institution. Now we have a pretty large list of institutions, but it is possible that your institution will be on the list. So send us an email and we can get it added for you. Then you find your institution here. And after you've found your institution, the next page will ask for contact information. At this point, we just need the contact one person. For the form. We might already have somebody on file already. It might pull in a name if we work for someone at your institution before, but it's possible that that name is outdated. They may have left that position or they're not the people going to run this survey. You can override it if you want to. But who knows? It could actually be that it pulls up. So fill out the contact information for yourself and submit it. You'll get an email from us saying that we got your contact request, will look it over, make sure that it's okay for you to partner with them. And then once we approve, you're going to get your email about administration or a registration rather. Second step of registration. You'll get this email, like I said thing that you've been approved. You're actually going to get two different emails. The first one is specifically about registration. Now this is going to ask you for specific contact information for two different contexts. So assuming you're the person who filled out the contact request form, you might also be this primary campus project manager. This is the person who's going to be responsible for giving us the population file, choosing a recruitment schedule, giving us a signatory. They'll get all of our emails and they're going to be our first of contact. So assuming it's the person who fill out the contact request form will fill in that information here for the CPN. If you don't want to be the SPM, you can put somebody else's name. If you want to make yourself a secondary contact, that's fine. You can decide who you want to get more emails from. But we'll need a second contact, the campuses administrative contact, and this person's just more of an FYI. We'll send them the important the confirmatory emails and reminders, but not every e-mail. So this might be a person who has like a little hands off, but the second person that we might go to if we can't get a hold of the primary contact and then we have an optional billing contact. If you have someone specific you want us to send the invoice to, we certainly can do that. Otherwise, we'll send it to the campus project manager. After you fill out the contact information, you'll agree to our terms of purchase patient, which you can look out on our website, verify that your contacts are both up to date, and that by registering, you'll be charged a non-refundable registration fee. But we can talk a little bit more about the fees. And the second, at that point, you'll also get the estimated base cost-free acute administration, which will actually be the final cost probably for most institutions. But for particularly large institutions over 2000 faculty, we do have an additional charge. And I'll get to that a little bit later. This is going to be the registration form. Now the second email that you get is actually going to be an automated e-mail from Qualtrics giving you a username and a temporary password. And so this is going to be what you use to sign into our dashboard. And I'll show you the dashboard and seconds. It's really exciting. Now, if you're concerned that you already have a Qualtrics login or a Qualtrics account. That's actually okay. If they're both based on the same email address, you can access both this dashboard that will be directing you to as well as your own previous other dashboards or other Qualtrics accounts. The username might be different, but the email address can be the same, so you don't need to worry about that. And this registration process is going to close July 16th. So you have four or 56, I guess, weeks to decide whether or not you want to get registered. After this step. You're going to again receive an email that we got your registration. And once we approve that, the secondary contact will actually get that same automated e-mail so that they can have a username and password to login to the dashboard as well. Again, I'll get to the dashboard in a second. But what happens after this, we call customization. So here's when you get to start make choices about your acute administration. So you're going to get linked to customize. And in this you'll be able to check which mailing or which recruitment schedule that you want to use. You'll get to choose a signatory name and title for the invitation to participate. And this is usually something like a provost or a president, somebody that the faculty will know and recognize. Also, this is where you're going to give us your population file. And this is whatever faculty or instructional staff you want us to survey. You put them in the list, Wilson in the survey. So whoever you want to include is who we're going to contact. We do have some specifications for what we'd like you to include in that file, and I've listed those here. We also have really extensive instructions posted on our website and it'll be linked in the, in the message that we send. Do we want firstName or prefix? So it depends on how you want us to address faculty. Do you want it to be Dr. so-and-so or firstName, so on. So you decide and then you give us which one you'd like. We also obviously need an email address. Optionally you can include, include additional group variable, and that would be a variable of your own choosing. So if you have separate campuses or specific units that you want to be identified, it can't be a faculty level identification because faculty are confidential. Identities are confidential in our administrations. But you can use some sort of variable to this, aggregate them in a way that makes sense. So it could be unit or department or campus, or it could even be something like that. They're a part of a faculty learning community where they've participated in certain professional development activities or whatever makes sense to you. This customization closest July 30th. But up until July 30th, you can continue to make changes. So if you find you forgot some faculty or you want to change your mailing schedule, whatever the choices are yours, you can continue to make those choices and change them up until July 30th on our dashboard. Now I'll show you your dashboard. So this is what it's going to look like when you first login to skew your dashboard. Actually, if you haven't filled out the customization choices, it's going to be pretty blank. But once you fill in customization and you'll see more of what you see here. So the first thing you'll notice is just this administration tab down the whole left side. We're going to fill that up with results tabs. We just don't have those quite ready to share with you yet, but we're working on and we'll get them ready by the time we launch. But for now you just have the administration tab. You're going to have a bunch of resources that can help you have a really successful administration. If you can't find something, e-mail us, let us know. We'll add links. I will add things as people need them. You'll see your cost, at least your cost before the population file. Remember, large schools pay a little bit extra over 2000 faculty. For most people, this will be your final cost. And then here's where you're going to see what you've selected as your mailing schedule, who you have as your signatory and even the population file that you've uploaded. If you just want to check and make sure that you have it there, one there that you want it. Now if you want to make changes to any of that, you go to this link right here and you can change whatever you like up until July 30. Also, your contact information is on the dashboard, but the picture was getting too small and I didn't post it here to check. But that'll be on there for you to see as well. Now as part of your acute administration, once you've done the customization, once everything fat, we're going to send reminders before customization closes to remind you to customize. And we'll also send you a reminder before your Survey launches so that, you know, remember that it's coming. I cannot, cannot emphasize enough that you should send a pre-survey announcement yourself from an e-mail that faculty will recognize telling them about this project, telling them it's important, telling them to expect that the name of the survey and the email address that we're sending from. Because faculty are skeptical group. And there's a lot going on with phishing and spam and jump mailboxes. So it's best that somebody that they know and trust tells them about us ahead of time. Also will have information for your IT your technology team to work on to make sure that we're allow listed and that we don't automatically get sent to junk folders. So that'll be important to once the Survey launches, which happens in September throughout the month of September and then closes October 15th. You can see a little snippet of the survey here. If you want to see the whole survey, it is posted on our website. You just sit back and wait and watch your results role in here some snippets of what the results are going to look like on your dashboards. You'll be able to see this live as they're being collected. There's not gonna be any wait time between the survey clothing and you getting your data and results, they're going to be there. You can see him watch them every day if you want to. So that's really great. We wanted to make sure this information got to you quickly so that you could deal with any problems as quickly as he could. And we're going to be open to, I'll talk about this a little bit more, adding more as time goes on. But right now we're going to focus solely on item level results from the survey itself. So you can see those things here. After cute administration, I actually hope we can stay in touch. We still plan on doing webinars and creating resources and helping you figure out what to do if your data, how to work with your data. Once the data is all collected, will create dashboards for comparative purposes. If you want to do benchmarking. Actually failed to mention in these dashboards of yours, you're going to be able to filter by all of the faculty characteristics that we collect on the survey. So things like full-time, part-time academic discipline, rank, or gender identity, racial, ethnic status. There'll be filters for all advanced. You can dig down and look at subgroups of your data as part of your results collection. But that brings me back to afterwards. We'll have comparative results if you wanted to do benchmarking to compare your institution to similar institutions with similar types of faculty, you will have that setup afterwards. We're going to do a lot of psychometric analysis. You can feel a lot more kind of strength with here results in a little more validity. Kind of power will eventually create scales after we look through the final data and creates new dashboards for you to have some more summary material instead of item level material. And really we're open to suggestions if there's something you think we could do that would be helpful, let us know and we'd be happy to to do our best. So if you have any other questions, check out our website or send us an email, we're really looking forward to working with you.

Want to know what to expect before registering? Watch this quick overview video of the administrative process leading up to survey launch, including the registration form, customization options, and a preview of the survey and results.

Pricing

The pricing structure detailed below is based on institution type by Carnegie categories.

Pricing Structure for CUTE Administrations
Carnegie Type	Cost for Administration
Doctoral Granting Colleges + Universities	$3,500
Master's Colleges + Universities	$3,000
Baccalaureate Colleges	$2,500
Associate's Colleges	$2,250
Other Institution Types	Contact us

Discounts

First-time participating institutions will automatically receive a $500 discount.
Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) will receive a recurring $500 discount for every CUTE administration.

Supplemental + Withdrawal Fees

Faculty populations exceeding 2,000 instructional staff will incur an additional $1 per sampled person.
Institutions that register for CUTE will be charged a nonrefundable $300 registration fee that will be included as part of the administration fee.
- Institutions needing to withdraw from the CUTE survey after registering and prior to the beginning of their administration will be charged a $300 fee but not their full administration fee.