{"id":53,"date":"2018-09-12T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T15:25:33","slug":"survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/article-no-hero\/survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Alumni Survey Helps Guide Advancement<\/h1>\n<h2>Great response yields constructive comments.<\/h2>\n<p>More than 4,000 MMA alumni received an email from the Advancement Office on June 4, with a link to a survey pertaining to their undergraduate experience, life post-graduation, and financial support of the college. The survey closed with 936 responses\u2014a 22.8% response rate. The goal of the survey was to gain a better understanding of alumni experiences as undergraduates, their connections to MMA, and how their experiences affect their level of interest in financial support of the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responses were amazing,\u201d says Vice President Advancement, Chris Haley. \u201cSome of the comments gave us a lot of food for thought; some have prompted us to review our methodology and programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile a few suggestions are beyond our control (we would love to make tuition free but are fiscally unable), many alumni gave specific, constructive suggestions we plan to implement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want you to know,\u201d Haley says, \u201cwe hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariners-forever\/2018-survey-results\/\">Review Questions &amp; Results<\/a>\u00a0or <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariners-forever\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/AlumniSurvey2018_Results_CombinedPDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download a PDF<\/a> of the full survey results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Survey Helps Guide Advancement<br \/>\nGreat response yields constructive comments.<\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 MMA alumni received an email from the Advancement Office on June 4, with a link to a survey pertaining to their undergraduate experience, life post-graduation, and financial support of the college. The survey closed with 936 responses\u2014a 22.8% response rate. The goal of the survey was to gain a better understanding of alumni experiences as undergraduates, their connections to MMA, and how their experiences affect their level of interest in financial support of the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responses were amazing,\u201d says Vice President Advancement, Chris Haley. \u201cSome of the comments gave us a lot of food for thought; some have prompted us to review our methodology and programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile a few suggestions are beyond our control (we would love to make tuition free but are fiscally unable), many alumni gave specific, constructive suggestions we plan to implement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want you to know,\u201d Haley says, \u201cwe hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariners-forever\/2018-survey-results\/\">Review Questions &amp; Results<\/a>\u00a0or <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariners-forever\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/08\/AlumniSurvey2018_Results_CombinedPDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download a PDF<\/a> of the full survey results.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/article-no-hero\/survey-results\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-september-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}