Student Culture & Climate Survey 2024

quarter of students felt the college was placing too much emphasis on DEI, while others felt it was not enough. Those who believed it was insufficient were more likely to come from marginalized groups. The data also shows that students are engaging with others, including those who differ racially, ethnically, by gender, and naonality. The lower levels of interacon may be aributed to a lack of representaon of those groups in the college, rather than conscious decisions to avoid engagement. This is parcularly relevant for students with different military or veteran statuses and those with visible or invisible disabilies; only 1.7% of students reported having military service, while 9.2% reported a disability based on self-reported data. When asked about experiencing discriminaon in the past 12 months, only 5.3% of students answered affirmavely. However, when asked about specific forms of discriminaon experienced during that me, the percentage of students reporng some form of discriminaon increased to 29.4%. LGBTQIA2S+ students, other BIPOC students, and women were the most likely to report experiencing some form of discriminaon. The most commonly reported forms included discriminaon based on sex, racial or ethnic identy, and polical orientaon. While the high percentages of students reporng experiences of discriminaon may seem alarmingly high, it is important to acknowledge that the specifics of the interacons leading to these feelings of discriminaon are unclear. No member of the university community should face any form of discriminaon, bias, or mistreatment from others. However, some incidents that students recall may not meet the university's definion of bias or discriminaon; instead, they might be instances of incivility, which are also unacceptable at Michigan State University. Regardless of the severity of these incidents, the college should be aenve to students' experiences and feelings and work to address issues as they arise. The data also indicates that the college has been successful in creang high-funconing learning environments. Students have highly rated faculty instructors, graduate student instructors, and staff instructors for their ability to listen to them and make them feel valued both in and outside the classroom. Addionally, students hold favorable views of their peers, which further contributes to the effecveness of the learning environment.

Results Comparison between 2022 and 2024

The following is a comparison between data collected in 2022 and 2024. The data in 2022 was collected by Soundrocket, a private survey research firm located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Soundrocket provided the Office for Survey Research with a dataset that was used to conduct this comparave analysis. This dataset contained 589 usable cases 4 . The dataset in 2024 used for comparison contained 966 useable cases.

4 The original 2022 dataset provided by Soundrocket contained 673 cases of which seven (7) were eliminated due to being ineligible due to age, and 77 were eliminated due to compleng less than half (41.0%) of the core quesons.