OAR 715-030-0011: Maximizing survey response rates

(1) Institutions shall implement survey solicitation, recruitment and dissemination practices that will encourage students to respond to the survey. In implementing these practices, institutions shall adhere to trauma-informed frameworks and consider the Oregon Campus Sexual Misconduct Survey Implementation Guide published by the Commission. (2) Strategies or practices adopted by institutions to maximize response rates shall not require students to respond to the survey or penalize students for not responding to the survey. (3) Institutions may use incentives to encourage student participation in the survey. To avoid coercion, incentives must be equally available to all students responding to the survey including students that do not complete and submit their responses. (4) Institutions shall include survey response rates and completion rates in the summary of results submitted to the Commission and published on the institution’s website.