Timeline

February 10

Available: Administrative Portal

All Primary Contacts will be emailed access information to an online platform where employee email addresses and the survey verification form will need to be uploaded.

Available: Institution Questionnaire (IQ)

Access through Administrative Portal will be granted by February 12 at the latest. The deadline for completing the IQ is March 29. Download the IQ Data Entry Guide here.

February 17

Reminder

Start communicating to your campus community that the Faculty/Staff survey is coming in March to create momentum and excitement! Institutions that communicate with their employees before the start of the survey enjoy significantly higher response rates. See the Important Forms & Documents page for sample communication templates.

We also encourage you to license the Great Colleges program logo, free of charge, to use in your employee survey promotion.

February 17

Deadline: Register for the 2024 Great Colleges to Work For Program

Register here.

February 19

Deadline: Survey Verification Form

See Important Forms & Documents for a copy of the Verification Form.

February 19

Deadline: Email addresses

Email addresses for all employees in your random sample are to be uploaded to ModernThink through the Administrative Portal. Please DO NOT email your list to ModernThink. See Important Forms & Documents for instructions on how to format the email list.

February 24

Deadline: Optional Customization/Oversampling

This option includes customization of the survey, oversampling and/or adding other staff that are not included as a function of the program. See Customization or Oversampling for more details.

February 24 – February 28

Send campus community email alert that survey will be starting

Pre-survey communication of the employee survey is critical. This communication should be sent by your institution to your full-time Faculty, Administrators, Exempt Professional Staff and Non-exempt Staff. See Important Forms & Documents for sample communication templates.

We also encourage you to license the Great Colleges program logo, free of charge, to use in your employee survey promotion.

February 25

Deadline: Connectivity Test Today

Email sent by ModernThink to your institution’s Primary Contact and IT Contact in advance of the survey launch. Confirm receipt of the test email by replying to the email by March 1. Important: Before this test, download the IT Requirements document and forward to your IT contact.

March 3 – March 28 (Survey Period)

Faculty/Staff Survey Period

ModernThink Higher Education Insight Survey^© period for your participating faculty and staff (includes adjunct faculty at two-year institutions). ModernThink will send reminder emails during the process to employees that have not yet completed the survey. Primary contacts will be notified the day before reminders are issued.

March 28

Deadline: Surveys Completed

Both the Institution Questionnaire and Faculty/Staff Survey close at midnight today. Download the IQ Data Entry Guide here.

May 12

Available: Recognized and Honor Roll Logos

See our Logo Use page for more information about how to license these logos at your recognized institution.

May 31

Deadline: To Order Advanced Reports at 10% Off

Order by this date and receive a 10% discount. See Additional Reports & Services for more details.

Early June

Recognition Notification

Institutions will be notified if they have been recognized as a Great College to Work For.

July 4

All Participation Reports delivered by today

September 5

Deadline: To Order Advanced Reports at 5% Off

Order by this date and receive a 5% discount. See Additional Reports & Services for more details.

September 19

Recognition Announcement

The embargo on the list of recognized institutions lifts today. Recognized institutions will be announced at GreatCollegesList.com as well as in a special insert of the September 20th edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.