ISAF Survey Responses (Undergraduate)

Written by - uaisa / 11.08.2021 /

Date: Aug 11, 2021

Referendum Task Force

Office of the President

ISAF Undergraduate Survey Response

Steps taken by ISA to encourage students to fill the survey:

Email to all 4,800 undergraduate international students (link)
Timeline: 1 month period for students to fill the survey.
Created an easy URL for the survey, isa.ualberta.ca/survey (link no longer work as survey concluded)
2 min Promo Video created to encourage students (Link)
Prizes: ISA Branded Jacket and gift cards (Link)
Translation: We translated the survey to Mandarin (for students from China) and shared it over WeChat via CSSA (Link)
Most Faculty Associations were also contacted to share the survey with their membership via newsletters.
Hosted a TownHall and encouraged students in the town hall to fill the survey by keeping a 5 min survey filling break. (Link)

Net Participants: 248 respondents for 4,800 undergraduate international students

Last Year Fee-related Survey Comparison:

2020 OASIS FAMF Survey: 234 for 6,050 arts undergrad students
2020 ESS FAMF Survey: 185 for 4,627 eng undergrad students

Few of the recent SU Surveys:

Undergraduate students in 2020/2021 - 30,341 Full Time, 2,769 part time - 33,110 net.

EDI and Student Supports Survey (April 18, 2021) - 224 respondents
Returning to Campus (April 30, 2021) - 751 respondents
SU 2020 Annual Survey Report (April 2021) - 3125 respondents
Academic Integrity Survey (March 3, 2021) - 637 respondents
Brain Drain and Food Insecurity Survey (Feb 9,2021) - 559 respondents
Three UASU Perks Surveys (Jan 12, 2020) - first survey there were 625 responses. For the second survey there were 657 responses, and for the last survey there were 702.

Conclusion: Our survey respondents should be sufficient compared to the survey respondents of the other SRA Fee proposals and the Students Union general surveys. Also, we did everything that we could, to get more respondents and there was nothing left that we could have done in addition.

Others include: Rwanda, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Trinidad, Uganda, South Korea, Jordan, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Ghana, Denmark, Qatar, Cameroon, Nepal, Malaysia,Venezuela, Ivory Coast, Australia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mexico, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mauritius, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Peru, Iran, Brunei, Tanzania, USA, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.