Students learn firsthand how experts think about and solve practical problems by interacting with faculty members inside and outside the classroom. As a result, their teachers become role models, mentors, and guides for continuous, life-long learning.

 

Long a hallmark of Peace College, strong mentoring relationships between students and faculty members make the College the unique place it is. From the First Year Adventures course to a senior-level independent research class, faculty members at Peace strive to know their students on both a professional and personal level. Knowing the students' needs and goals allows Peace College faculty members to guide them in their academic pursuits and career paths. In addition, many of the relationships result in friendships that last long after Graduation Day.

 

 

Student-Faculty Interaction: Comparisons

 

The National Survey of Student Engagement reports mean scores (average scores for all students participating in the survey) for each institution and also compares each institution to various other groupings. Peace College is compared to other women's colleges, other institutions within Peace's classification as defined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (labeled "Peers"), and all other institutions participating in the survey (labeled "NSSE 2007"). The mean scores can be compared to each other for a relative rating.

 

Student-Faculty Interaction: Survey Items

To determine the level and quality of first-year and senior students' interactions with faculty members, NSSE asked them questions to learn more about their experiences in the following areas:

• Discussed grades or assignments with an instructor
• Talked about career plans with a faculty member or advisor
• Discussed ideas from your readings or classes with faculty members outside of class
• Worked with faculty members on activities other than coursework (committees, orientation, student-life activities, etc.)
• Received prompt feedback from faculty on your academic performance (written or oral)
• Worked with a faculty member on a research project outside of course or program requirements

A guide to the charts
The 2008 NSSE surveyed 478,079 students at 769 four-year colleges and universities around the country.

 

The NSSE project does not rank institutions. Each school has only their students' scores on the five "benchmarks of effective educational practice" and some comparative information for similar types of colleges (in Peace's case, other women's colleges and liberal arts colleges) as well as national averages established by results from all the institutions that participated in the survey, identified in the charts as "NSSE 2008."

 

The charts display the mean, which is the weighted arithmetic average of students' responses, in each of the five benchmark categories: (1) Level of academic challenge, (2) Active and collaborative learning, (3) Student-faculty interaction, (4) Enriching educational experiences, and (5) Supportive campus environment.

 

The charts are best used by scanning across the bars to see how Peace students' evaluations compare to the scores from students at schools in the comparison groups.

 

The NSSE project does not rank institutions. Each school has only their students' scores on the five "benchmarks of effective educational practice" and some comparative information for similar types of colleges (in Peace's case, other women's colleges and liberal arts colleges) as well as national averages established by results from all the institutions that participated in the survey, identified in the charts as "NSSE 2008."

 

The charts display the mean, which is the weighted arithmetic average of students' responses, in each of the five benchmark categories: (1) Level of academic challenge, (2) Active and collaborative learning, (3) Student-faculty interaction, (4) Enriching educational experiences, and (5) Supportive campus environment.

 

The charts are best used by scanning across the bars to see how Peace students' evaluations compare to the scores from students at schools in the comparison groups.