Every two years, the Dudley H. Davis Center deploys a campus-wide assessment. This comprehensive tool surveys community members to help us better understand their attitudes and experiences related to the University’s student center’s programs, services and facilities. Most recently administered in April, 2012, the Davis Center Biennial Survey is a critical element of our continual improvement processes. You can learn more about the Davis Center via our Annual Report. On this blog, we’ll continue to share snippets of important data we gathered from this survey.
One compelling data set from this survey reveals important information to event planners and programmers on campus. As the hub of the student experience, we wanted to learn more about the days and times our students preferred to attend events. The charts below reveal some important trends about student preferences.
Students trend toward the middle of the week when asked which days they would prefer to attend events.
On weekdays, students prefer evening programing more than they do on weekends. The 5 PM to 7 PM and 7 PM to 9 PM time blocks are a clear winner with students.
On weekends, students prefer afternoon evening events. Over half of the respondents indicated that they preferred the 3 PM to 5 PM and 5 PM to 7 PM time blocks.