UTS Family Survey Executive Summary

I’ve always believed that feedback is a gift. Whether positive (always lovely to receive) or negative (sometimes difficult to hear), feedback is essential to growth and improvement. As a doctoral student, I remember many meetings with my advisor, sitting together to review my research, pouring over mounds of data and pages of writing. Of course, it would have been wonderful to hear that everything I produced was flawless from the start and that no changes were necessary. But that’s not how the iterative process of feedback in the service of growth works. 

I learned to see those feedback sessions as gifts – an indication of the care being shown to me. The time taken by my advisor to provide feedback was a sign of respect and a belief that, with continued effort, the outcome I was working toward could be even better. 

Last June, UTS families provided us with the gift of feedback through our annual family survey. The information we gathered is helping us better understand the experience of our community, and will inform our ongoing efforts to make UTS the best that it can be for every UTS student. 

Overall, the feedback from those who completed the survey was exceptionally positive, and points to the value our families place in a UTS education. As with any survey, some findings point to areas where we can and will do better, and I want families to know we are listening and excited to undertake work in these areas.   

We have prepared a UTS Family Survey Executive Summary that highlights the findings. It is a snapshot of our school at a point in time that will serve as a benchmark for growth over the course of this year.

Thank you to everyone who participated.