Meredith College has chosen to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for eight consecutive years because it examines effective educational practices and reflects how involved students are in experiences that lead to student learning and personal development.  Based on the results, Meredith claims a place among the “highly engaging institutions.”  

NSSE identifies five areas of effective educational practice and provides benchmark scores that allow the College to view Meredith students’ mean scores in relation to those of students in the national sample.  In 2007 – as in all prior years of participation – Meredith’s mean benchmark scores exceeded the top 50% of scores of the national sample.  Indeed, in 2007, mean benchmarks of Meredith’s first-year students were at or in the top 10% nationally in all five areas; seniors’ average scores also placed along with the top 10% in all but one area.

The benchmark areas are as follows:

• Level of Academic Challenge (LAC)
• Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL)
• Student-Faculty Interaction (SFI)
• Enriching Educational Experiences (EEE)
• Supportive Campus Environment (SCE)

For information about the five areas, and the mean scores of Meredith’s first-year and senior students as compared to the 2007 national sample, click on the links provided above.

To learn more about Meredith students’ response to many of the individual questions on the survey, please review More NSSE 2007 Highlights at Meredith.

In 2007, 610 colleges and universities in the USA and Canada participated in NSSE, with over 323,000 student respondents. To learn more about NSSE, visit its Web site at http://www.nsse.iub.edu.