CAFES 2008 new student survey report

Abstract

During Academic Day, September 2, 2008, incoming freshmen and transfer students in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) were asked to complete a one-page questionnaire designed to find out how they learned about UW-River Falls as an option for their tertiary education, what factors most influenced their decision to come here, what sorts of contact they had with the University prior to matriculating and how committed they feel to UW-River Falls and their current major. A limited amount of demographic information was also collected. This report summarizes the 310 responses that were returned. Based on the approximately 420 freshmen and transfer students admitted to CAFES for Fall 2007, the estimates contained in this report should be accurate to within plus or minus 2.6 percent.