HEDS Advancement and Faculty Collaboration Survey
The HEDS Advancement and Academic Affair Collaboration Survey can be used to learn how advancement/development professionals and faculty (including academic administrators with faculty status) at colleges and universities understand one another’s work and identify ways to make their collaboration easier and more productive.
The survey asks people about their experiences with, attitudes toward, and knowledge of the work of their colleagues. Faculty are asked about their experiences with advancement colleagues and their level of knowledge about advancement operations. Advancement professionals are asked about their understanding of the work of faculty and administrators in academic affairs.
Both are asked about three aspects of cooperation with their counterparts:
- attitudes towards cooperation,
- prior experience with cooperation, and
- knowledge of their counterparts’ work.
Survey Background
This survey has been adapted from the 2022 Survey on Collaboration Between Advancement and Academic Affairs, developed by Frank Boyd (HEDS Senior Research Fellow and Vice President in the Higher Education Division of McAlister and Quinn) and Carlo Robustelli (Vice President of Advancement at Dickenson College) and a committee from HEDS member institutions and conducted in collaboration with HEDS. This study arose from the need for fundraising professionals and academic leaders to collaborate effectively in the context of rising financial and enrollment pressures on higher ed institutions. Read the results of this study on our Findings page.
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You can administer the HEDS Advancement and Academic Affairs Collaboration Survey for any 3–6 week period between January 13, 2025, and April 25, 2025.
Please be aware that you must register at least seven weeks (35 business days) prior to the date on which you plan to begin administering the survey. The last day to register for a 2025 administration is February 14, 2025.
Institutions that administer the HEDS Advancement and Faculty Collaboration Survey will receive:
Unit-record survey data:
- You will receive a preliminary version of your institution’s unit-record survey data in both SPSS and Microsoft Excel files within ten days of your survey closing. You will receive final data files that will include any HEDS calculated variables and/or indicators with your final survey report.
Comparative report:
- A report that compares the responses of your faculty and advancement staff to the faculty and advancement staff of all other participating institutions on all survey questions.
- We cannot begin working on the comparison report until the survey closes for all institutions at the end of April 2025. As this is a new survey, we do not yet have a time estimate for report delivery.
YES! Here’s how:
- We insert your institution’s name at the top of each page of the survey and in the text of applicable questions
- You can customize the survey invitations and reminders
- You can add custom, institution-specific questions at the end of the survey
While you can add supplemental questions to the end, we do not modify our survey questions or response options. In order for us to offer the benefit of comparative data between participating institutions in our survey reports, the questions and response options have to be the same across all the colleges and universities using the survey.
- Survey base cost – $1,325
- Survey base cost for HEDS members – $575
These prices include up to 10 supplemental questions. There are some custom options for additional fees. You will find all survey options and fees in the survey information sheet. Please click on the “Survey Options, Policies, and Fees (PDF)” button in the Downloads section of this webpage.
To learn more about your institution becoming a HEDS member, please visit our Join HEDS page.
If you have any questions, please email us at advancementandfacultysurvey@hedsconsortium.org.
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