Fraternity and Sorority Experience Survey
The FSES provides a holistic view of the member's experience and reveals individual chapter and council need by exploring ten comprehensive areas including chapter and community experiences, bystander involvement, risk identification, program evaluation, and relationships to others.
Designed to gain insight into students' feelings, perceptions, and behaviors, going beyond just satisfaction levels. Use data to compare new, active, and leader experience, create benchmarks, target advising, and make critical decisions on program and advising support.
The survey offers flexible administration, rich quotes, and customized questions.
Piazza Center uses the aggregate-deidentified data to track national trends and examine sound professional practices. When utilizing the survey for your assessment needs, you are helping to provide valuable research to improve the fraternity and sorority movement.
Participating Institutions Receive
- Online access to the Fraternity and Sorority Experience Survey©
- Weekly survey completion updates over the course of the data collection period
- Executive summary report outlining select findings
- Individual chapter and council analyses
- Benchmarking data by member type, councils, or custom cohorts
- Consultation services to assist in data use, as applicable
- Full cleaned data set in the SPSS Statistics File Format or Excel File Format including an aggregate summary
Report Examples
- Executive Summary Report provides a perceptual overview of behaviors, their frequencies, and chapter cultures (sample Executive Summary Report)
- Council and Member Type Comparison Report (sample Council and Member Type Report)
- Individual Chapter and Council Reports (sample Individual Chapter Report)
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Express your interest and schedule a conversation. Complete an FSES Participation Form or email us at PiazzaCenter@psu.edu
Review your needs
- Meet to discuss expected administration timeline, review additional questions, and data use consultation needs
Survey Specifics
- Distribution strategies, survey incentives, list development, organizational data approvals, invitation, reminder, and ending messages
Contract
- Summarize specifics needs, contract, and invoice
Survey Launch
- Survey administration window, receive participation reports and updates, and custom reminder emails
Reports
- Data cleaning and sharing
- Executive summary, organization, region/area/district, and chapter reports
Consultation (Optional)
- Schedule a pre-consultation meeting to discuss data analysis and data use needs
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Description Price Communities under 1,500 members $3,500 Communities between 1,500 and 3,500 members $4,500 Communities with more than 3,501 members $5,500 Additional Survey Questions $150-250 Consulting Services (2 variables and up to 10 response items) $1,000
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For benchmarking of results, the Piazza Center recommends that partners plan multiple administrations of the survey. The FSES should be repeated every year, year and half, or two years. Partners signing up for multiple administrations receive the following discounts:
- 5% discount for the first administration
- 10% discount for the second administration
- 15% for the third administration
Administrations must be conducted within a two year period to receive the following discount. The Piazza Center may offer discounts and/or special promotions throughout the year at select conferences or for purchase of multi-year administrations.
If you have a limited budget and/or council's are subsidizing fraternity and sorority life program costs, we offer an additional 5% discount or contact us to apply for a grant to defray participation costs.
