The California State University
Annual Campus Technology Survey
Fiscal Year 2001/2002

About This Survey

The CSU Campus Technology Survey for Fiscal Year 2001/2002 is one of several system data collection activities pertaining to information technology in the California State University. Related activities include biennial opinion surveys of students, faculty and staff, and annual reports from centrally managed programs and information systems. The division of Information Technology Services has responsibility for these activities.

To minimize the burden on campuses, all collection of data about information technology originating in the Chancellor's Office will be coordinated. Data requests from any system division for whatever purpose will be incorporated into annual, scheduled survey activities. Use of the Web is intended to streamline and facilitate the survey process. Terms requiring clarification or interpretation are underlined. Clicking on them will take the reader to a separate document where the necessary information is provided.

The primary purpose of the annual campus technology survey is to meet a Legislative reporting requirement associated with State support for improving the technology infrastructure of the CSU. In return for investments totaling some $243 million over a three-year period, the CSU agreed to provide annual reports through 2008 on the impact of those investments. Data collected to meet the State reporting requirement will be reported for the system as a whole. Individual campus profiles will be not be included. Information gathered this year will also be used to inform and to evaluate implementation of the Operations and Support Strategies component of the CSU's Integrated Technology Strategy - Technology Infrastructure Initiative.

Questions in the current survey were asked in the same or similar form in the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 surveys and will be asked each year through 2008. The intent is to measure change over time on a series of important indicators related to the goals of the Integrated Technology Strategy (ITS).

The survey is divided into four parts. Part A asks for the name of the campus and information about the person submitting the data. Part B asks 13 sets of questions related to ITS initiatives. Part C asks for information about the campus IT environment. Part D provides an opportunity for respondents to comment on issues raised by the survey.


Submission of the Survey

Only one person designated by the campus president, or his/her designee, will be given a password and the URL to submit the completed survey on behalf of the campus. To facilitate consultation with campus constituencies, read-only access to the survey form is provided here.


Deadline for Receipt of Survey

The deadline for submitting this survey is August 1, 2002.


More Information

If you have questions about the purpose or scope of this survey, interpretation of survey questions, or the uses that will be made of data received, contact Stephen Daigle, Senior Research Associate, Information Technology Services, at steved@calstate.edu.


A Final Comment

The Legislature invited the CSU to demonstrate the value of its investments in the CSU technology infrastructure against a set of measurable criteria. The strategy we have adopted is to document how these investments translate into improvements in learning and teaching, personal productivity, administrative productivity, and the quality of the student experience, the outcomes articulated in the CSU Integrated Technology Strategy.

The CSU Annual Campus Technology Survey was developed by a workgroup under the oversight of David Ernst, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services. The workgroup included two campus chief technology/information officers, two institutional research directors, two representatives of the California State Students Association, two senior staff members from the Chancellor's Office division of Academic Affairs, and two senior staff from the division of Information Technology Services. Content specifications and survey questionnaire items were modified based on feedback from senior staff in system offices with relevant programmatic responsibility, and from members of the CSU Information Technology Advisory Committee.