Technical Preparations
Submit email lists (due the first Friday of your institution’s Spring semester)
Before you can administer the MISO Survey on your campus, you must first send the Survey Administrator a list of email addresses for each campus population that you wish to survey. Most institutions send three lists – one of student email addresses, another of faculty email addresses, and a third of staff email addresses. When constructing your faculty list, be sure that each individual on the list is part of an academic department and teaches curricular courses. Institutions that choose to survey additional populations, such as graduate or professional students, should also send a list of email addresses for members of that population. (Please be aware that institutions choosing to survey additional populations may be subject to an additional fee.)
Although your administrative system can produce a list of email addresses for each population, you may also need to consult stakeholders on your campus (such as the Registrar or members of your HR department) with responsibility for institutional information. Allow plenty of time for these conversations with campus stakeholders.
Create your lists using either an Excel or CSV document. Each list should include the following information:
All teaching faculty
- Email address
- Preferred first name
- Last name
Enrolled full-time undergraduate students
- Email address
- Preferred first name
- Last name
- Class year; or year of graduation (either is acceptable)
All staff (excluding members of your merged information services organization)
- Email address
- Preferred first name
- Last name
Please ask your MISO Survey Team liaison if you have any questions or to determine what data to include in lists created for surveying special populations. Submit your email lists to David Consiglio.
Complete spam preparations (due during the third week of your institution’s Spring semester)
When your school takes part in the MISO Survey, large numbers of campus community members receive emails sent from Bryn Mawr College inviting them to participate in the survey. Spam filters installed at your institution sometimes interfere with this invitation process. Please work with your system administrators to ensure that these emails sent from brynmawr.edu aren’t blocked as spam during this timeframe.
In general, your spam filter should permit mail from the Bryn Mawr College email server and its rate check feature should be disabled for emails coming from Bryn Mawr. For additional details, please contact David Consiglio.
Confer with your system administrator in late Fall to determine that your campus spam filter is configured so that it does not interfere with the Survey. Double-check with your system administrator one week before the Invitation to Participate emails are distributed on your campus.
Questions and Comments: survey@misosurvey.org
