About the Survey

The Greek Experience Survey was originally developed in 1986 at the University of Minnesota to study its own fraternity and sorority community. This study was repeated ten years later in 1996 to measure change and was formatted as an optical scan survey for use at any college or university. The survey is now available through the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity, and since 1997 it has been used at more than 20 colleges and universities throughout the United States.

This 8-page, 300-plus item survey covers areas such as Recruitment, Chapter Affairs, Your Chapter House, Academics, Chapter Advising, Alcohol, Personal Growth and Development, Personal Involvement, and Demographics.

Through the use of chapter meetings, we have devised a highly efficient system for conducting the survey among fraternity and sorority chapters yielding participation rates as high as 92 percent of the fraternity/sorority population. High participation rates are not a given, however, so we have prepared a manual, “How to conduct the Greek Student Experience Survey on your campus.” All you have to do is conduct the survey on your campus. We take care of everything else.

Once you have decided to conduct the survey, the questionnaires are shipped to you, arriving usually within four working days. After the survey process is done, questionnaires are shipped back to the Center for scanning and data analysis. The printed tables of data are then shipped back to you, along with another publication, “Data analysis guide for the Greek Student Experience Survey.” This publication, written in simple terms, enables the user to understand the meaning of the data. Standard contents include: Frequency distributions for all participants, separate frequencies for the fraternity and sorority populations, cross-tabulations comparing all fraternity members vs. all sorority members, a floppy disk containing your data and statistical programs to enable you to conduct further analyses, and a permanent confidential archiving of your data for future use by you. A special optional feature of the output consists of, for example, a comparison of Sorority A vs. all other sororities as a group on all survey items for exclusive, confidential use by that sorority.

You can estimate the costs of conducting the survey based on the following:

Contact the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity at (812) 855-1228 or cscf @ indiana.edu. We will be happy to send you copies of the survey and the manual for administering the survey for your review.