The Student Experience at the Research University:

Comparing Boilermakers to Other Research Universities’

Students

Maggie DalrymplePACT Forum, December 2, 2013

SERU Survey ResultsPurpose

• Created by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California – Berkeley

• Selected AAU institutions invited to participate

• Survey focus:– Undergraduate experience at a research

institution – Satisfaction– Learning outcomes– Institutional climate

SERU Survey Results Comparison to Other AAU

Institutions

SERU Survey ResultsComparison to Other AAU

Institutions

SERU Survey ResultsHow Purdue students spend their

time

SERU Survey ResultsInstitutional Climate

When asked if their race/ethnicity are respected on this campus: 87% of Hispanic/Latino students agreed 70% of Asian students agreed 54% of Black/African American students

agreed 62% of international students agreed

that their immigration background are respected on this campus

SERU Survey ResultsInstitutional Climate

92% of women agreed that “students of my gender are respected on this campus” compared to 97% of men Only 24% of women strongly agreed,

compared to 45% of men.

23% of women often heard students express negative or stereotypical views about genders

SERU Survey ResultsLearning Outcomes

SERU Survey ResultsLearning Outcomes

SERU Survey ResultsLearning Outcomes

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website at

www.purdue.edu/OIR