EIU Illinois Higher Education Center

2024 Survey Administration

Illinois Assessment of College Substance Use Behaviors (IACSUB) Survey

Copy of Survey

Survey Administration Checklist

Illinois Institutions Only

CURRENT STEPS:

• Register your Institution
• A letter must be on the facility’s letterhead stationery or e-mail, and should contain the following:
  • Agreement for the study to be conducted at the site
  • Identification of someone at the site who will provide information about appropriateness of the study for its population
  • Assurance of adequate capabilities to perform the research as approved by the IRB; and if applicable
  • Assurance that facility personnel involved in data collection have appropriate expertise and will follow IRB approved procedures.
• Send us a random student sample (names and emails) from your registrar's office.
• Provide us with the tentative timeframe you would like to run the study (must be completed by May 1, 2024).

Purpose

This survey is to determine the current incidence and prevalence of alcohol and other drug use on Illinois 2 and 4-year college campuses. Furthermore, students’ perception of others’ use; perceptions of risk related to use; beliefs regarding use; negative consequences associated with use; experiences of secondhand effects of others’ use; experiences of physical and sexual violence; and the relationship of alcohol and other drug use to campus climate issues will, also, be examined.

Background

The Core Alcohol and Drug Survey was administered on a statewide basis in the spring semesters of 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022.  During our 2012 administration, approximately 12,600 students at 23 Illinois institutions of higher education (16 four-year institutions and 7 two-year institutions) participated in the administration.

Moving forward, we are no longer working with CORE or utilizing the CORE survey. In place of the Core, we are administering our newly developed IACSUB survey. This survey will assess the same topics as CORE, with slight modifications. It is an adaption of the Missouri statewide survey. 

Benefits

• No cost to your institution
• Survey results are done in house, meaning quicker distribution
• Survey results will not be shared with other institutions, only you or delegated persons will receive a copy of your institution's results
• Administration will be done in early spring pending approval, will run for approximately 3 weeks.
• Survey will be distributed using the EIU Qualtrics platform
  • Surveys will take about 20 minutes to complete
• Subjects will receive a link to the survey from Qualtrics, accessible from the IHEC site with a dropdown selection for your institution

  • Survey will follow similar content to CORE, focusing on substance use, harm reduction efforts, and similar topics.

• Conducting needs assessment will help target prevention resources and make programming efforts justifiable, fundable and measurable.
• Data can also assist in defining the nature and extent of the campus alcohol and other drug problem and in identifying high-risk groups within the campus

Implementation

The goal for both Department of Human Services and the Illinois Higher Education Center is to have over 40 institutions and over 15,000 students participate in this coming spring’s administration.  Institutional results can be used to provide data for the federally mandated Safe and Drug Free Campuses Biennial Review, for campus needs assessment, program development, and grant writing needs. The aggregate Illinois data is used to help both the Department of Human Services and IHEC in fund seeking, program development, resource allocation and assessment.

Administration

We are still recruiting schools for this year's administration, so I would like to include some information below. In order to participate, we will need an official letterhead stating the permission for us to administer the survey. We are getting approval from the EIU IRB to administer the survey. In order to send a survey out to you, we need the following pending your approval:

• A letter must be on the facility’s letterhead stationery or e-mail, and should contain the following:
  • Agreement for the study to be conducted at the site
  • Identification of someone at the site who will provide information about appropriateness of the study for its population
  • Assurance of adequate capabilities to perform the research as approved by the IRB; and if applicable
  • Assurance that facility personnel involved in data collection have appropriate expertise and will follow IRB approved procedures.