Core Institute
The Applied Research Consultants (ARC) is an organization composed of graduate students and faculty members housed within the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. ARC's goal is to assist with the collection and reporting of data regarding drug and alcohol use.
The standard surveys offered by CORE quantify and document college students' attitudes, perceptions, and opinions about alcohol and drugs. The surveys also measure behaviors of actual AOD use and consequences of use. The target audiences of the products and services offered by the Core project are college presidents, administrators, counselors, and others involved in student life and the quality of the college campus environment.
We assist clients with all aspects of data collection.
- We typically begin the process with a scheduled consultation to discuss project expectations, timelines, budget, etc that will then be included in a Memorandum of Agreement.
- Then, we will begin to build your custom, online survey using Qualtrics. Once the survey is ready, we will provide a link to be shared with students.
- Finally, the results of the clients' research efforts are provided in an interactive PowerBI report.
Our custom services allow institutions with unique requirements or assessment focus to receive the same cost effective options as originally made available to FIPSE grant recipients. These services also allow us the flexibility to remain relevant as the challenges of student life programming change over the years.