Dear Staff Colleagues,

As you know, Bates is in the midst of a process of working to better understand the sense of well-being and engagement among the members of our staff. An Employee Engagement Working Group has been active since last fall, and the next step in its work will be a survey designed to give each member of the Bates staff an opportunity to say how you view the current working environment at Bates and what you think we can do better to facilitate engagement and well-being. 

While completion of this survey is entirely voluntary, I strongly encourage you to participate, and to do so with thoughtful consideration and candor. Your responses will be completely confidential, and all survey results will be reported in group form only, with no identifying detail. 

This project is being led by Rankin Climate, an independent firm with over 20 years of experience in campus climate assessments, and has been reviewed and approved by the Bates College Institutional Review Board. The results will better enable us to successfully meet the needs of our community.

More information about this project may be found here.

I will be in touch again on February 27 to share a link to the survey. Thank you, in advance, for contributing to this important initiative for our campus community.

All my best,

   Garry