Campus Climate Survey

The National Assessment of Collegiate Campus Climates (NACCC) is a relatively new national quantitative survey on campus racial climate created by the University of Southern California (USC) Race and Equity Center. 

The NACCC survey is based on a decade of the center’s qualitative work and crafted by race, equity, and inclusion experts on the NACCC Advisory Panel who worked together to identify the most salient survey content areas and questions in the field of campus racial climate today. 

The NACCC includes the following six content areas essential to understanding racial climate on campus, plus demographic information: mattering and affirmation, cross-racial engagement, encounters with racial stress, racial learning and literacy, appraisals of institutional commitment, and impact of external environments. 

Read the NACCC survey FAQs

Under the leadership of Carol Henderson—vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and adviser to the president—Emory is participating in the NACCC, which will help inform the diversity strategic planning process underway at Emory.

The NACCC was created and is sponsored by the USC Race and Equity Center in Los Angeles, California, and has IRB approval from USC. Lumina Foundation funded the development and launch of the NACCC.

The NACCC survey reflects a decade of the USC Race and Equity Center’s qualitative work and the input of race, equity, and inclusion experts on the NACCC Advisory Panel* who have identified the most salient content areas and questions in the field of campus racial climate. A diverse Student Advisory Panel consults with NACCC staff about the ways in which undergraduates engage with campus surveys generally. The panel also provides review and input on the content of the campus racial climate survey specifically.

* Members include college and university presidents and provosts, campus diversity and inclusion officers, race and equity content faculty and experts, postsecondary institution membership association directors, institutional researchers, and survey methodologists.

Content Areas

• Mattering and affirmation
• Cross-racial engagement
• Encounters with racial stress
• Racial learning and literacy
• Appraisals of institutional commitment
• Impact of external environments

This survey has provided data about the Emory community's commitment to equity and inclusion and the extent to which all of us interact meaningfully with diverse others. In the case of our students, the survey evaluated their feelings of readiness for citizenship in a racially diverse democracy and other important topics.

The NACCC survey is a validated survey instrument based on more than a decade of studies at colleges and universities across the country. It provides comparative data and recommendations, which will be helpful in gauging Emory's campus climate relative to other participating institutions. In addition to the NACCC survey and reports, interested institutions also can access other resources at the USC Race and Equity Center to improve their campus racial climate, including the USC Equity Institutes.

View information on the Equity Institutes

Confidentiality and anonymity are assured in all NACCC analyses and reports.

The survey was voluntary, and all of the information you provided will be kept confidential. Your individual data will be sent directly to the NACCC, not Emory, and will be accessible only to NACCC survey administrators, who operate under strict confidentiality requirements.

Your name and email address were retained solely for the sake of reminders. When Emory receives the survey report, only the aggregate data is shown. No identifiers are matched to reported responses and no disaggregated data will be presented for any subgroup with fewer than five respondents. 

Emory has requested unit-record data in addition to the NACCC survey report, but access to that level of detail is strictly limited. The details of this data sharing will be disclosed on the first web page you see upon clicking the unique link emailed to you. The unit-record data (without your name or email address) was sent only to the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support at Emory, whose director signed a statement of confidentiality legally guaranteeing that the unit-record data will not be shared with any individuals who are in a position to make or influence personnel decisions about individual subjects. Further, only aggregate data, with no cells smaller than five respondents, will be shared with broader audiences at Emory.

There will be no direct impact of this survey on your role at Emory. The university will use the results to create action plans to improve the campus climate.  

Yes. Information about the findings, process, and resulting action will be shared with the university community. 

Upon receiving the survey results, Emory will begin a process to develop action plans to address issues identified by the survey. The action plans will be vetted with various constituencies.