2022 Questionnaire
The 2022 questionnaire incorporates several new important substantive areas, including questions to garner more insight on alumni experiences in terms of their sense of belonging and inclusion during their educational experience, examining the degree to which they felt respected, valued, and supported by faculty, peers, and others during their training and study.
The demographic questions have also been expanded to include more questions about how a person identifies themselves that aim to provide the means to examine alumni responses with greater granularity by how alumni identify themselves.
Additionally, questions about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for training, education, and employment have been developed. In particular, the questions seek to garner alumni perspectives on shifts in their work environments and related shifts in needed skills and opportunities for sustaining creative lives and work in the future.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Arts and Design Alumni
The authors of this report, Dr. Rachel Skaggs, Dr. Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard and Dr. Jeff Barbee, provide insight into arts and design graduates whose work is — or before the pandemic was — in the arts, design, or creative realm by examining their working lives, economic lives, and the skills that they needed to attain or update during the first two years of the pandemic in the United States. This report was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
