Voices of the Campus: JSU Sociology Club's Student Issue Survey
Date
2-19-2025
Faculty Mentor
Bri Turgeon, Sociology; Jacob Church, Sociology
Files
Submission Type
Conference Proceeding
Location
5:00-5:10 pm | Houston Cole Library, 11th Floor
Description
Please note: no video is available for this presentation.
The purpose of our project is to better understand how the student body feels about particular issues on-campus and in the broader community. In order to do this, we wrote and conducted a survey in Fall 2022 which includes questions about students’ experiences interacting with various aspects of JSU. The survey includes a variety of questions, asking about students’ experiences ranging from housing, transportation to and from classes, on-campus dining options, accessibility of campus buildings, inequality, the environment, and other issues. Near the beginning of the survey, students were asked which of these issues they are most concerned with. Based on their responses, they were directed to specific blocks of questions to answer questions focused on those issues. In this presentation, we discuss the preliminary findings from the 292 survey responses we received. Our findings show that students top concerns focus on mental health, finances, and campus housing. In this presentation, we further break down the issues students care about most. As we go forward, we hope to use our findings to work towards potential solutions to improve our campus community.
Keywords
student research, sociology
Rights
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Disciplines
Sociology
Recommended Citation
Hamilton, Jaliyah; Kinnion, Gabrielle; Jones, Landree; and Gonzalez, Lauren, "Voices of the Campus: JSU Sociology Club's Student Issue Survey" (2025). JSU Student Symposium 2025. 47.
https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/47
