Denny Shea shared the following survey summary with attendees at our October 19th Luncheon.
DePaul Emeritus Society
The Fall DES Luncheon
October 19, 2012
Report to Membership
The 2012 DES Survey
The DePaul Emeritus Society
(DES) conducted a survey of its membership in the late spring and early summer
of 2012. As of mid-July, a total of 111
DES members, approximately 46% of DES membership, returned the survey – a
wonderful participation effort by DES members.
Thank You!
Of survey respondents, sixty-six
percent live in or near the Chicago-area with the remaining 34% residing in 16 other
states. Fifty-seven respondents retired
from DePaul ten or less years ago while 43% are retired for more than ten years
with 19 of that cohort being retired more than 20 years.
The format of the survey
included five sections. Three of the first five sections required DES members to
select from among a list of fixed choices.
In the remaining two sections, respondents were asked for their brief,
open-ended replies and for their comments as well. The 2012 DES Survey Report will be accessible
to view on the web in late fall; look for details about accessing it in the
next DES Newsletter.
Section I: The objective of this section was to identify
the degree to which DES members use or participate in specific university
programs. DES members were asked to rate
the degree of their use or participation in ten university programs. (See Section I of Survey) Two university programs/services yielded
significantly high frequency-of-use scores:
The DePaul Magazine and
DePaul’s E-mail system. Next in order of
frequency-of-use were the DePaul ID card and Campus Connect. Earning the lowest frequency-of-use scores
were Demon Discounts and the St. Vincent Health Faire.
Section II. The objective of this section was to identify
the degree of importance which DES members place on specific DES-sponsored
programs. Respondents were asked to rate
the degree of importance for ten DES programs.
(See Section II of Survey) Three
programs yielded significantly high degrees of importance: The DES
semi-annual Newsletter, the DES Endowed Scholarship, and the Oral History Project. Next, in order of importance, were DES
Fall & Spring Luncheons, Retiree Benefits Talks/Forums, and the Memorabilia
Project. Earning the lowest degree of
importance in the views of DES members were the DES Blog and DES Facebook.
Section III. Here, the objective was to ascertain the
degree of satisfaction that DES members placed in DES – in other words “How
satisfied are you with the DES? The
results – and member comments –- were impressive: all respondents were “Satisfied” to “Very
Satisfied” with 51% of DES members being “Very Satisfied”. Their comments reflected their good to very high
degrees of satisfaction.
Section IV. “What Would You Like DES To Do?” – so read
the caption of this section. The
objective here was to identify what DES members might want done this year by
DES’ four standing committees. The
result: please see the reverse side for
specific action plans from the chairs of those four committees, who formed
their plans based on survey replies from you and other DES members.
Section V. “Tell Us How DES Can Better Serve You.” Thirty replies were received, and they are as
varied and diverse as our DES membership is.
We encourage you to review
and comment on the full 2012 DES Survey Report when it is available. Access to the report, via the DES website,
email or paper, will be detailed in the next DES Newsletter. If you have observations about the content of
this report or comments on the full report, please direct them to Alice Farrell
in the Office of Mission and Values at afarrell@depaul.edu or
Dennis Shea, DES member, at dennisshea@comcast.net.
Once again, thank you for
your wonderful support!
