Thank you for considering participation in the Healthy Minds Network (HMN)’s survey research. You are likely here because you have been asked to participate in the Healthy Minds Study for Faculty and Staff (HMS). HMS was designed specifically for colleges and universities, and its success depends on gathering the diverse perspectives of faculty and staff across campuses. By participating, you will be providing your school with valuable information that will improve campus life and you will be contributing to a broader goal of promoting well-being within higher education.
Below you will find our Frequently Asked Questions about HMS for faculty/staff. If you have additional questions, you may email our study team at hms-coordination@umich.edu
Your college or university has enrolled in HMS. You and other employees at your institution have been invited to participate in this study to better understand faculty and staff wellbeing and perceptions of student behavioral and mental health needs.
If you received emails to complete the HMS survey, it means that your school provided our team with a list of faculty and staff members. This list only included your first name and email address for the purpose of survey recruitment.
Your school is participating in HMS to better understand faculty and staff wellbeing and perceptions of student behavioral and mental health needs. You are among those selected to participate. Some schools choose people randomly; some schools choose everyone. Your school has determined that they may share this data with our study team, considering federal, state, and institutional policies and regulations. For specifics on your school’s decision, you may contact the researchers at hms-coordination@umich.edu, or reach out to the contact person form your school. That individual is listed at the end of the consent form at the beginning of the survey.
If your school provided you with a general URL to access the survey, no information about you was given to the HMS research team.
Over the course of the one-month data collection period, faculty and staff who have not completed the survey will receive several reminders.
If you wish to opt out (and stop receiving emails), there are two approaches:
This survey was designed to protect your privacy and confidentiality. How that is done depends on the protocol your school chose. One is designated “anonymous” and the other “confidential”. The consent form presented at the beginning of the survey will indicate whether your school chose an anonymous or confidential approach to survey administration.
In the case of the confidential protocol,
In the case of the anonymous protocol,
We invite faculty and staff at your institution to participate in this voluntary study. We welcome a diverse perspective!
Try copying and pasting your link into a new window of your current web-browser or use a different web-browser altogether. If this still is giving you trouble, please email hms-coordination@umich.edu.
No, but most schools opt into a national sweepstakes so that their participants have the chance to win one of two $500 Amazon gift cards or one of ten $100 Amazon gift cards. The national prize drawing will be in the summer. In addition, your school may have their own drawing for additional prizes. The consent form at the beginning of the survey states all incentives for your school. And, if you received an email with a link to the survey, it also includes information about incentives.
If you are doing this survey because you received a link in an email, you don’t need to do anything to enter prize drawings. In that case, all invited faculty and staff at all institutions participating in this study are automatically entered to win the national sweepstakes prizes. That is true even if you don’t fill out the survey.
If you entered the survey through a single, broadly advertised URL, you will need to provide your first name and email address to enter the drawings. That is done by clicking on a link in the survey, where instructed. That link leads to a separate webpage that exists solely to gather contact information for the purpose of awarding prizes.
Here are a few paths to take:
We welcome feedback about our study! Please fill out our brief, anonymous anonymous feedback form to provide your suggestions for improving the Healthy Minds Study.
No. To maintain the validity of our survey design, we do not allow for editing of responses that have already been submitted.
There are a few possibilities: