Subject: 2009 Bryn Mawr Alumnae/i Survey From: Mark A. Freeman To: Jagruti Patel Dear Jagruti Patel, I am writing to ask you to participate in an online survey. Many of the outcomes of a college education are not apparent until some time passes after graduation. How your Bryn Mawr experience affected you and your classmates is a question of great interest to our faculty and administration as we continue our efforts to keep the College ahead of the curve and appealing to the next generation of college-bound women. You are our best source of information about how well your needs were met by the College and how well your years in college prepared you for what lay ahead. The only way we can learn answers to such questions is to ask you. For this reason, Bryn Mawr is conducting this survey of alumnae/i. We hope that a large and widely representative group of alumnae/i will respond so that our results will be as informative and accurate as possible. Your feedback is very important to the future development of Bryn Mawr. The survey is hosted by the COFHE college consortium; 32 other consortium members are participating. To access the survey simply click on the link below. This is a unique link assigned to you. For this reason it is important that you do not share it or forward it to anyone else. [url] The unique identifier in the URL will allow Bryn Mawr to merge your responses with other institutional data and so make better use of the information you provide. I wish to emphasize, however, that your responses will be kept completely confidential and secure in the Office of Institutional Research.* No other office will have access to your individual responses on the survey, and all reporting from the data will be in aggregate form. I know that time is precious, and I would like to thank you in advance for giving some of yours to complete this survey. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact Mark Freeman, Director of Institutional Research, at 610.526.6599 or at mfreeman@brynmawr.edu. Thank you and best wishes for a healthy and fulfilling 2009. Sincerely, Jane Dammen McAuliffe President *See http://www.brynmawr.edu/institutionalresearch/documents/BrynMawrConfidentialityPolicy.pdf for more information on Bryn Mawr's strict policy on confidential handling of survey data.