Survey Responses

[Bob Midden]

To: GRAMS Scholarship Recipients

All GRAMS scholarship recipients were sent a request to respond to a survey that needs to be completed so that we can report your responses to the National Science Foundation. That is the federal agency that provides the money that pays for your scholarship. 

We are required to submit this annual report so that agency will continue to provide the money for your scholarships. 

A reminder was sent to you to respond to this survey. Of the 22 active scholarship recipients only 8 have responded. Responding to this survey would have only required about 15 minutes of your time. 

It is discouraging to me that so many of you who are receiving so much money are so reluctant to contribute such a small amount of your time to meet this requirement. 

Furthermore, we have sent multiple requests to you to provide very simple answers to three questions and some of you still have not responded.

We will report this to NSF and will find out if they are willing to accept this low response rate or if they will terminate funding of the program. I will notify you later of their response. But if they are willing, the lack of response of some of you to our repeated requests for information will be taken into consideration in decisions about the renewal of your scholarship. These requests are serious and I do not consider them to be overly burdensome in exchange for the considerable amount of money that is being provided for your benefit. The failure to respond indicates to me your lack of interest in further participation in this program.

Sincerely,

Bob Midden

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[Paul Husband]

Dr. Midden,

Judging from the fact that I received this e-mail I must have been one of the too many people who did not respond to the survey.  There are no excuses because you are correct: the requirements for sustaining the generous terms of the scholarship are minor in relation to the returns.

I apologize for my inaction and will make sure it does not occur again.

Paul Husband

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[Heather Clendenin]

Dr. Midden,

Until your e-mail, I had believed I was up-to-date on submitting all requested information related to the GRAMS scholarship.  I assumed the survey in question was related to the questions sent out the week before spring break, and as such checked through my e-mail to make sure I'd submitted a response.  In this search, I turned up a survey from the beginning of February that I believed I had submitted as well, but I have been unable to check; I received the following notice when I clicked on the link: "This survey is currently closed. Please contact the author of this survey for further assistance."  Unfortunately, the original survey e-mail did not include a submission date/deadline, or else I would've checked my submission before this point in time.  Additionally, there may be some issues in the chain of communication because I did not receive any reminders in my mailbox related to this survey.  Perhaps other GRAMS recipients encountered this problem, as well.

I hope this does not come across as an excuse, but I act in good faith and rely on feedback to be assured that I am in good standing in relation to this scholarship.  I doubt that any other recipient takes it lightly, either. 

Sincerely,
Heather Clendenin

[Bob Midden]

Heather-

I'm sorry that I unnecessarily raised your anxiety. You were one of the eight students who completed the survey and I am very grateful for that. You also responded to the other request for answers to questions needed for our NSF report. I sent the message to all GRAMS students to make sure that everyone is aware of the importance of responding to these requests. Please help raise the awareness of other GRAMS students about this and thanks again for your responses.

Bob Midden