Student Culture & Climate Survey 2024

Mean scores of 4.50 and above can also be considered very posive, while scores of 1.50 and below are viewed as very negave.

Results Sasfacon with Climate and Environment

Students were first asked to rate their level of sasfacon with the climate and environment at Michigan State University and within the college on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 represented "very dissasfied" and 5 represented "very sasfied." As shown in Table 3.1 the overall sasfacon levels for the university and the college were nearly idencal, with 86.6% of students sasfied or very sasfied with the college and 86.2% sasfied with the university. On average, students rated the climate and environment within the college slightly higher, with mean scores of 4.22 for the college and 4.16 for the university. Both mean scores fell into the posive range of the scale. Table 3.1. Sasfacon with Climate/Environment at Michigan State University and Broad College

Overall, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the climate/environment at

Std. Dev

N

Mean

0.3%

2.5%

11.0%

53.5%

32.7%

Michigan State University

86.2%

966

4.16

0.73

3

24

106

517

316

0.1%

3.4%

9.8%

47.4%

39.2%

Eli Broad College of Business

86.6%

966

4.22

0.77

1

33

95

458

379

Results by demographic groups are shown in Table 3.2 and 3.3 When examining sasfacon by demographic group, the data revealed the following: • Men reported slightly higher sasfacon levels for both the university (mean score 4.21) and the college (mean score 4.29) compared to women, whose scores were 4.13 for the university and 4.18 for the college. • White students had the highest sasfacon rangs, followed by Asian students. Other BIPOC students reported the lowest, yet sll posive, levels of sasfacon, with mean scores of 4.08 for the university and 4.05 for the college.

• Students who idenfied as LGBTQIA2S+ had lower sasfacon rangs for both the university (mean score 4.04) and the college (mean score 4.03) compared to their straight counterparts. Interesngly, LGBTQIA2S+ students and other BIPOC students were the only groups that reported higher sasfacon with the university than with the college.

• Among all demographic subgroups, LGBTQIA2S+ students had the lowest sasfacon rangs.

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