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Student Culture & Climate Survey 2024

Overview and Methodology \In the fall of 2024, Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business invited all current faculty, academic staff, university support staff, and students to evaluate the climate and culture within the college. This report focuses on the results of the student survey. The data collecon instrument used in 2024 was based on the instrument used in 2022 1 . While efforts were made to maintain the same quesons for comparison between the two periods, slight changes in wording and queson structure were incorporated in 2024 to beer meet the needs of the college. In the secon of this report that compares the 2022 and 2024 results, any deviaons in queson wording or structure are noted. The full version of the survey instrument can be found in Appendix A. The data collecon instrument contained the following secons: • Introducon and Informed Consent • Climate and Environment – 36 quesons • Bias Incidences – 19 quesons • Student Experiences - 11 quesons • Climate Feedback – 3 open-ended quesons| • Demographics – 8 quesons.

Populaon

The survey was administered to 4,699 2 Eli Broad College of Business students - 3,545 undergraduate students, 1,108 master level students, and 48 doctoral students enrolled as of Fall 2024 using a web-based data collecon plaorm. Students were offered a $5 Panera e-card as an incenve to parcipate. All data was submied anonymously. Table 1 presents the demographic profile of The Eli Broad College of Business, based on instuonal data. This informaon is used to assess how representave the collected data is of the overall student populaon. The data is highly representave of the populaon by class level, with the class distribuon within +/-5% of the actual populaon. Addionally, the data is also largely representave of the populaon by race and ethnicity, for American Indian/Alaskan Nave, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Lano, and students who idenfied with two or more races. However, the data slightly underrepresents White students by +6.3% and includes a higher representaon of internaonal students by +7.8%. The largest difference in representaon is males and females with the data overrepresenng women by 15.5%.

1 The 2022 study was conducted by SoundRocket,LLC. 2 The sample file received from the college contained 4,703 students of which four (4) were also college employees who were dropped from the student sample and received the employee survey.