Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Foubert, John" <>]

Colleagues,

I advise caution when completing surveys distributed over list serves by for 
profit companies, especially when they do not indicate that they are approved 
by human subjects research committees.  Though I do not know the intentions 
of the last one we received, the stated purpose of such surveys is not always 
the actual purpose.  In this case the stated purpose appears to be to appeal 
to our need to save on costs on campuses.  What information that is collected 
can be used for is to devise marketing strategies to figure out how much to 
charge institutions for an online sexual assault curriculum.  Just a reminder 
that not all surveys that go out are for the purposes of collecting data to 
understand the phenomena we are all trying to fight (sexual assault) and that 
some research is done to figure out how to maximize profits.

John Foubert

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College Student Development Master's Degree Program
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