Comments on: The Ed Pass surveys are in… http://owatc.edu/blogs/studentservices/2008/11/the-surveys-are-in/ Just another Owatc.edu Blogs weblog Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: borenr http://owatc.edu/blogs/studentservices/2008/11/the-surveys-are-in/comment-page-1/#comment-11 borenr Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:59:30 +0000 http://owatc.edu/blogs/studentservices/?p=39#comment-11 Lori, I realized as I read your comments that the word "voted" in my description of the survey is really a misnomer. It wasn't actually an official binding vote, but rather was an informal survey intended to provide a sense for how students felt about the program. The purpose was to provide administration with student feedback so a decision can be made. With hundreds of surveys returned from all campuses, it could never represent the view of every single student, but it does give us a pretty good idea of how groups of students are looking at it. Unfortunately, excluding some campuses across the board will not work. If we take out all of the students from those campuses there is not enough participation to pay for the program. Alternatively, if we take out only some students then we have to address issues of fairness. Every group that is either included or excluded will have students who do not like the decision. We are still considering all of our options to see if there is a hybrid that would be viable, but I wanted to post some of the logistics involved. Lori,
I realized as I read your comments that the word “voted” in my description of the survey is really a misnomer. It wasn’t actually an official binding vote, but rather was an informal survey intended to provide a sense for how students felt about the program. The purpose was to provide administration with student feedback so a decision can be made.

With hundreds of surveys returned from all campuses, it could never represent the view of every single student, but it does give us a pretty good idea of how groups of students are looking at it.

Unfortunately, excluding some campuses across the board will not work. If we take out all of the students from those campuses there is not enough participation to pay for the program. Alternatively, if we take out only some students then we have to address issues of fairness. Every group that is either included or excluded will have students who do not like the decision.

We are still considering all of our options to see if there is a hybrid that would be viable, but I wanted to post some of the logistics involved.

]]> By: Lori http://owatc.edu/blogs/studentservices/2008/11/the-surveys-are-in/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Lori Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:25:08 +0000 http://owatc.edu/blogs/studentservices/?p=39#comment-8 Unite the entire student body by voting on the edpass decision at one time, regardless of what campus a student attends. The result will represent the will of the majority of the entire student body. OR Allow some campuses to be exempt from the charge and have no trasportation passes available. Only the ogden campus would have the edpass. Unite the entire student body by voting on the edpass decision at one time, regardless of what campus a student attends. The result will represent the will of the majority of the entire student body.
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Allow some campuses to be exempt from the charge and have no trasportation passes available. Only the ogden campus would have the edpass.

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