Center for Alumni Satisfaction
& Outcomes Research
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The CASOR Mission
is to help improve graduation rates at America’s colleges and, in furtherance of this objective, neutralize U.S. News’s widely criticized college rankings - its exploitation of college aspirants and their families and its pernicious influence on the behavior of the colleges themselves.
We will do this by providing prospective college students with superior on-line mechanisms for identifying the college or colleges where they are most likely to be happy, to be successful - and to graduate.
We will do this by providing prospective college students with superior on-
CollegeStraightTalk.Org will
• give college intenders access to the results of large-scale, highly-detailed alumni satisfaction and outcomes surveys - precisely the kind of information and advice that is by far most likely to help applicants optimize the “fit” between themselves and the colleges they decide to apply to and then attend
• enable them to generate their own completely individualized college rankings on the basis of
1. what attributes they say are most important to them in a college, combined with
2. how highly (or not) alumni have rated their own alma maters on those same criteria
2. how highly (or not) alumni have rated their own alma maters on those same criteria
• let them provide detailed profiles of themselves and then see what their “affinity alumni” – grads with similar or even identical personal profiles – have said about their alma maters when taking our survey
• bring them together with their “affinity alumni” for real-time mentoring via our private Google+ and Facebook networks
• draw their attention to the numerous relatively unknown but highly effective smaller colleges that may very well do a better job than the more “obvious” choices of meeting their unique needs and wants
Achieving these goals will require the involvement of the colleges and universities themselves, and gaining their cooperation is a prime objective of the five-college pilot survey that you are here to learn more about.
There’s a reason why so many companies in the US and elsewhere brag in marketing communications about how well they’ve done in independent customer satisfaction surveys. That’s because actual users’ experiences are the best guides possible to how good or bad a particular product or service really is. A college education is a service just like any other, and, for better or worse, even the most elite private US colleges are in reality highly competitive “big businesses” in their own right.
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Kenyon, Mount Holyoke,
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Eating Club Alumni
Survey Still in Field
Eating Club Alumni
Survey Still in Field
College President Reactions to Obama Administration’s “College Scorecards”
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