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Vol. 128, No. 134 Thursday, May 9, 2019
OPINION
SPORTS
ARTS & CULTURE
Letter from your Opinion Editors regarding “Top 5 whitest things”
Colorado Eagles season points to bright future
Dogtopia opening brings better behaved pups to Fort Collins
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The Administrative Office of Diversity at Colorado State University recently released a report about the 2018 employee climate survey results. PHOTO BY MATT TACKETT COLLEGIAN
Employee climate survey analyzes CSU work environment By Laura Studley @laurastudley_
The Colorado State University employee climate survey results are out. The employee climate survey has taken place every two years since it started in 2012 said Mary Ontiveros, vice president of diversity. Its goal is to make CSU a more equitable
place to work through University employees’ feedback, according to the survey’s concluding statements. Last year had the highest response rate for the CSU employee climate survey at 58.5%. This is up 26% from 2014 and 30% in 2016 according to the survey. The survey included different “themes” to gauge the overall climate of the University
including culture, respect, incidents of bias and misconduct and work stressors. This year, there were a total of 15 themes within the survey. “The purpose is to help us identify where the areas of concern might be, and then to program or introduce policies, procedures, practices that would help us to address those if they are problematic, to make it a better campus, and if they are
not problematic, to celebrate what we are doing well,” Ontiveros said. The goal of the report is to assess the overall climate of the University in hopes of creating a conversation surrounding how a more equitable workplace can be achieved, Ontiveros said. The University cannot make progress and improve the overall employee climate if they don’t know what the issues
are, she said. According to the overall findings, most faculty and staff agreed on the state of their department or unit diversity culture, sense of belonging and respect demonstrated by the average responses for each category. The response for department or unit diversity culture
see SURVEY on page 4 >>