Campus Climate Survey

You can administer the HEDS Campus Climate Survey for any 3–6 week period between October 20, 2025, and April 24, 2026.

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.

Live updates:

• We provide ongoing updates while your survey is open to give you a first look at select, high-level data from the survey. These updates will give you an early, overall sense of how people responded to parts of the survey, and they allow you to gauge your response rates so you can adjust your communication strategies if necessary.

Unit-record survey data:

• Your institution’s unit-record survey data in both SPSS and Microsoft Excel files.
• A separate formatted Microsoft Excel file with your open-ended survey responses. The responses in this file cannot be linked to responses in your unit-record data file.
  • We will send you your unit-record data and open-ended response file no later than 50 business days after your survey closes. This timeline ensures we can thoroughly review responses and remove the names of anyone who identifies themselves or is accused of discrimination and/or harassment.
  • Given the sensitive nature of this data we require that you accept our secure data handling agreement before we send you any data files.

Comparative report:

• A report that compares the responses of your students and employees to the students and employees of all other participating institutions on all survey questions and indicators.
  • We cannot begin working on the comparison reports until the survey closes for all institutions at the end of April 2026. We anticipate delivering these reports by late summer 2026.

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 – $4,000
• Survey base cost for HEDS members – $650

These prices include up to 10 supplemental questions. There are some custom options for additional fees.

To learn more about your institution becoming a HEDS member, please visit our Join HEDS page.