Dear CU Alum, 🎓,

The grace of the Lord is sufficient for you and for all your endeavours.

We are delighted to reach out to you and all our community of past students who now number over 28,000 since graduation of our first cohort in 2002. We trust that God’s grace and keeping has kept you all since you left the walls of CU. We further believe that the vision of our anthem, that:

‘…We live where dreams are born; where bold eagles dare to set sights on higher heights and dare to stand on destiny’s hills to welcome a new day… and reach beyond the stars’

is becoming real to you every day, week and month of each year

Central University (CU) has come this far by the grace of God and in our 25th year, we renew our commitment to improve our relations with our alum and our drive to improve our programmes and student experiences.

We are keen to know how you are doing. We are keen to know how your studies at CU positioned you for your life of service. We are anxious to obtain your feedback. We are thus embarking on our first major Tracer Study – to follow up our alum and institutionalize a system of regular engagement and regular feedback. We encourage all alum to take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire. Your feedback is very valuable and will enable us to fully appreciate and understand your current status, identify areas where we can improve, and assess the effectiveness of our programmes.

The data collected through this study will be used to improve our academic progammes, career services, facilitate mentorship relationships between our current and past students and enable you our Alum, promote your current businesses, organisations, initiatives and prospects to the current students and the University community as a whole.

Relationships matter, and we recognize that over the years we have not done well in reaching out to you. We seek to rectify this.

Thank you for participating in this exercise and may the good Lord richly bless you.

Best regards,

Prof. Bill Buenar Puplampu
Vice Chancellor

Tracer Studies

Dear Graduate, Through this questionnaire CU aims to track its graduates and receive feedback regarding the type of work, further study or other activity you are/have been involved in since you completed your study from Central University. The information provided will assist the institution to plan both for future educational needs and improve its programmes. Results of this tracer study will only be presented in summary form and individual responses will be kept strictly confidential. We would, therefore, highly appreciate if you could complete the following questionnaire and return it to us, at your earliest convenience. Thank you for your kind cooperation and support.

Personal Information

Kindly fill this form

Gender*

Work Address*

Mobile Number*

Country of Residence*

Programme Pursued*

Year of Completion*

Since your graduation have you gone on to take any other programme?*

Employment Information

Which one of the following best describes your current employment status?

How long did it take you to find your job?

How related is your current job to your program of study?

Organization

Organization Address

Job title

Type of Organization

What is your current monthly gross salary?

In your current job, are you

To what extent did the skills you developed during your studies help you get your job? Would you say that your skills were

How long have you been employed or self-employed?

Did your degree earned from CU provide the requisite technical know-how of your job?

Type of Skill or Ability

There are a number of skills and abilities that may be required of employees. For each skill and ability, please identify how important that skill and ability is to performing your own work. Please indicate if the skill is extremely important, important, unimportant, or not at all important.

Specific job-related theoretical knowledge

Specific job-related skills(e.g. technical skills)

Communication (oral and written) – speak/write in a clear,concise,correctmanner

Comprehension - can restate information, ideas and concepts in different ways

Quantitative skills (Ability to use mathematical concepts)

Computer skills

Critical thinking and problem solving- evaluates his/ her own thinking for problem solving and decision making

Research and analysis - collects, analyzes and organizes relevant information

Team-work

Organization and planning - determines tasks and resources to complete project objectives

Time management - sets priorities and allocates time efficiently to complete tasks within deadlines

Quality of work - performs tasks accurately and pays attention to detail

Creative and innovative - creates innovative strategies and / or products that meet identified needs

Adaptable - adapts to new situations and demands by applying or updating knowledge and skills

Responsible - takes responsibility for his/her own actions and decisions

When you first started working after graduation, how would you rate your level of preparedness for the following skills and abilities. Please tell us if you were well prepared, prepared, somewhat unprepared and completely unprepared:

Specific job-related theoretical knowledge

Specific job-related skills(e.g. technical skills)

Communication (oral and written) – speak/write in a clear,concise,correctmanner

Comprehension - can restate information, ideas and concepts in different ways

Quantitative skills (Ability to use mathematical concepts)

Computer skills

Critical thinking and problem solving- evaluates his/ her own thinking for problem solving and decision making

Research and analysis - collects, analyzes and organizes relevant information

Team-work

Organization and planning - determines tasks and resources to complete project objectives

Time management - sets priorities and allocates time efficiently to complete tasks within deadlines

Quality of work - performs tasks accurately and pays attention to detail

Creative and innovative - creates innovative strategies and / or products that meet identified needs

Adaptable - adapts to new situations and demands by applying or updating knowledge and skills

Responsible - takes responsibility for his/her own actions and decisions

How likely are you to staying in your current job or profession?

How likely are you to return to the same school?

What is the main reason you are unemployed?

Have you ever been employed since graduation?

How long did you work?

Suggestions

How would you rate your overall satisfaction with your university’s preparation for the type of work you were/are doing?

Would you recommend your program to someone else or not? [If respondent is enrolled in a second tertiary program, response required for their previous program]