Commuter / Faculty Parking Permit Data

This afternoon I spoke with Serena McCollum at the Office of Institutional Research about my project and the problems I was having obtaining electronic data. She said that they had no way of creating such a spreadsheet. While they do have a database with student names and addresses, they had no way of telling if they commute or if they live at an Athens residence.

Faculty / Commuter Permits...

This morning I was contacted by Teresa at Parking Services about my request for commuter and faculty parking permits. They have records from the previous three years only, because they are not required to keep them for more than three years. Furthermore, the only available records of the addresses to which the permits were issued are on individual sales receipts and not in any electronic form. I went down to the Parking Services office to go through the permits. However, there are roughly 3,000 commuter permits and 2,500-3,400 faculty permits for each year. This figure includes permits that are given as replacements for ones that are lost or stolen. I'm not entirely sure about where to go from here. I am considering going through a portion of the permits to get a sample of the data, but I'm not sure how many would represent an adequate sample.

Student survey

The IRB is in, so soon we will be collecting data from the students. Information on student "green" fees, air travel, commuter travel, beliefs in global warming, computer use, and similar topics will be collected from students in the business and psychology departments, business frat, and various individuals around campus. We will keep the transportation people posted!

Requesting Commuter Records

Hi,

I was the male with brown hair who was at parking services earlier this week. I was looking for commuter permit records and I was the recipient of about six raised eyebrows, as I had anticipated. I went to Pilcher House on Tuesday and submitted a request for the records. I am currently waiting to hear back from Legal Affairs.

Data should be based on fiscal years

This is just a note to say that according to Jennifer Schroeder, program officer and webmaster for Clean Air-Cool Planet, the majority of colleges collect data based on fiscal years. I am posting this as a separate post because I think it is relevant to categories for which information included in previous posts about this issue is not.

This post is to establish post labels.