{"id":2254,"date":"2019-01-08T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:51","slug":"survey-is-positive-for-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2019\/01\/08\/survey-is-positive-for-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey is Positive for University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Alliance of St. Joseph released its 2018 Community Survey last summer with positive results for Missouri Western.<\/p>\n<p>One of the notable positive increases was in response to the following question: \u201cMissouri Western is moving in the right direction.\u201d In the 2016 survey, 62 percent of the responses were \u201cstrongly agree\u201d or \u201cagree\u201d (excluding those who responded \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d). In the 2018 survey, 72 percent of the responses were \u201cstrongly agree\u201d or \u201cagree,\u201d a 10 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were also asked about 19 different quality of life issues in St. Joseph and Buchanan County, and whether their needs were being met in those areas. Of those issues, \u201caccess to higher education\u201d had the highest favorable rating, with about 87 percent (excluding those who answered \u201cdon&#8217;t know\u201d) saying that their needs for access to higher education are being met. In addition, 87 percent said access to higher education was very important or somewhat important as a reason to live in St. Joseph and Buchanan County.<\/p>\n<p>The survey is administered by the ETC Institute in Olathe, Kansas. The response rate generated a 95 percent level of confidence, statistically speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Alliance of St. Joseph released its 2018 Community Survey last summer with positive results for Missouri Western. One of the notable positive increases was in response to the following question: \u201cMissouri Western is moving in the right direction.\u201d In the 2016 survey, 62 percent of the responses were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}