Mark J Miazga

University of Minnesota Twin Cities | UMN · Office of Measurement Services

Best practices for increasing response rates on an undergraduate and graduate school student survey based on research and past practices among consortia schools.

Results of a 2017 experiment using time-based incentive reminders and other innovations that led to a marked increase in response for the University of Minnesota’s 2017 administration of SERU-Undergraduate.

Overview of 2016 SERU-Undergraduate survey administration, review of issues, identification of process improvements including quality assurance and outlook for 2018.

Summary of presentation given on best practices for increasing response rates in institution-wide surveys given at Association for Institutional Research Annual Conference in March, 2015.

Testimony before two Minnesota Senate committees on the school lunch bill of 2013. Content concerns the effects and economic costs of hunger on adolescents. Given on February 12, 2013 and March 21, 2013.

The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium is an academic and policy research collaboration based at Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California – Berkeley (CSHE) working in partnership with the University of Minnesota, the International Graduate Insight Group Ltd (i-graduate), the Higher School o...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the status and integration of college systems to address student alcohol use. Method: We conducted a survey of college leaders (campus administrators, healthcare directors, and enforcement directors) among 569 4-year colleges in the United States. We measured strategies across five key system co...

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) recommends the formation of campus and community coalitions as one strategy to help alter aspects of college campus culture that support excessive and underage alcohol use. This approach aims to re-frame student drinking as a community problem by bringing together all stakeholders neede...

Local law enforcement agencies operate with finite or limited resources and yet are faced with a wide set of enforcement responsibilities. Prioritization is likely, although the extent and nature of this process is not clear. We examine the extent to which three facets of alcohol enforcement (underage drinking, over-service of alcohol, and drink-dr...

To assess the use of alcohol screening tools across US colleges. Directors of health services at 333 four-year colleges. An online survey was conducted regarding the use of alcohol screening tools. Schools reporting use of formal tools were further described in terms of 4 tools (AUDIT, CUGE, CAPS, and RAPS) that the authors judged to be the most fa...

The objectives of our study were to learn whether malt liquor is a problem for cities, how many cities have passed policies to restrict sales, what factors distinguish cities with policies from cities without policies, and whether policies are perceived to be effective. One alcohol policy official and one enforcement officer from each of the 115 la...

We assessed alcohol enforcement practices at 343 U.S. colleges via surveys of directors of campus law enforcement. We measured types and frequency of enforcement and barriers to enforcement. We found that 61% of colleges indicated nearly always proactively enforcing alcohol policies, with most frequent enforcement at intercollegiate sporting events...

Purpose: Malt liquor is a cheap, high-alcohol beer that is widely available in inner cities, where it is associated with problems such as public inebriation, violence, and crime. Cities such as Washington D.C. and Seattle, WA have adopted policies to restrict malt liquor sales. Other cities have considered such policies, but have not implemented th...

Heavy alcohol use among college students is related to a wide range of problems. Many policies have been identified for college campuses to implement to address student alcohol use. To be effective, these campus policies need to be actively enforced so that potential violators perceive a high certainty that they will be caught and that they will fa...

Objectives. Our study investigates what cities are doing to restrict malt liquor sales, and why some cities are successful in adopting policies to restrict malt liquor and other cities are unsuccessful. Malt liquor is a lager beer with a higher alcohol content than regular beer. Methods. We conducted 30-minute telephone interviews with local poli...

Alcohol use and related problems on college campuses are serious public health concerns, and alcohol control policies have been shown to be effective strategies to address these concerns. Several studies have examined the types and prevalence of alcohol policies on college campuses, however most of these studies involved a relatively small number o...

Malt liquor is highly available in inner cities and is associated with heavier drinking, intoxication, more aggressive behavior, and public safety issues (e.g., public drinking, broken glass). Malt liquor is often targeted toward specific ethnic groups. We examined how much local authority cities have to restrict malt liquor sales (e.g., banning ma...