Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:39:23 -0400
To: "Jagruti Patel" <jag@mit.edu>
From: David Jamieson-Drake <david.jamieson.drake@duke.edu>
Subject: Duke Alumni Survey

Dear Jagruti,

As a Duke graduate, your opinion is very important to us. We recently
e-mailed you an invitation to participate in the Duke Alumni Survey,
but we have not heard from you yet. This survey gives you an
opportunity to share your thoughts about your undergraduate experience
and to update us on your post-baccalaureate activities. Complete,
representative responses will permit us to obtain maximum benefit from
this effort to seek important intelligence from our alumni. A high
response rate will also help Duke stand out among our peers, as we do
in many other areas.

Your participation in this survey is voluntary.  With your permission,
Duke may match, for its research, your responses to your test score
information in institutional databases to help analyze major and
career choice findings, or to other survey responses, such as the
Freshman and Senior Surveys, to track change over time. This
information will increase the usefulness of the survey. In all cases,
your responses to the survey will be kept strictly confidential and
will not be printed or published in any form that would identify
you. The information you provide will be used by the senior leadership
of the university, deans, and faculty leaders, to help guide
prioritization and decision making on issues important to
undergraduate students.  

We value your ideas and would greatly appreciate your taking the time
to complete the survey, which will only take about 25 minutes.  To
enter the survey, please visit




If you have questions about the study, please contact me via email
(david.jamieson.drake@duke.edu) or by phone at 919-684-0540. If you
have any questions about your rights as a research participant, please
contact the Chair of the Duke University Human Subjects Committee at
919-684-3030.

Many thanks in advance for your time and participation.

Sincerely,

David Jamieson-Drake
Director of Institutional Research
Office of the Provost's Office
Duke University