SGA surveys students' happiness, stress levels
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article covers an SGA survey of undergraduate happiness, stress and social life.
- The News-Letter reported that a survey was issued to the student body, with 1,219 responses; under junior Marc Perkins's leadership, the Student Rights and Interest Committee had hired junior Charlie Ouyang as statistician.
- The paper reported that unhappy students mostly blamed academic rather than social pressures, while the article attributes to Perkins the view that many students put academics before social life.
- The article says Perkins's team wanted to develop social support, including a possible Student Union; 87 percent of respondents said they would use one.
- The reporter writes that deans Paula Burger and Susan Boswell said they were not involved in the survey, while more than 60 percent of respondents said the administration rarely or never showed care for undergraduates.
- The article says Ouyang planned to compare written responses with demographic, gender, class and major data, and reports that 69 percent of respondents had never used university tutoring resources.
- The News-Letter reported that analysis was expected to finish by the end of the semester, with findings planned for publication at the start of the spring semester.