The 2025 UH Student Sexual Harassment and Sex-Based Violence survey is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, and will remain open until Monday, March 10, 2025.
Survey Frequently Asked Questions FAQs
A customized link to the online survey will be emailed to all UH students 18 years and older at their hawaii.edu email address.
Students who prefer to respond to paper copies of the survey or surveys with key sections (Consent Form and Key Instructions) translated into Tagalog, Korean, Mandarin or Japanese, may call the OmniTrak survey hotline at: (808) 536-4880.
Translated sections are also available on the Taking the Survey & Translations page.
Hard copies of the survey (including translated sections) will be mailed to the student upon request. The student can complete a hard copy and return the survey via mail.
For questions relating to accessing the survey, contact the OmniTrak survey hotline:
Phone: (808) 536-4880.
Media inquiries can be directed to the University System Communications Office (Dan Meisenzahl):
Email: dmeisenz@hawaii.edu
Phone: (808) 348-4936
For all other inquiries relating to the survey, contact the UH Office of EEO/TIX:
Email: eeo@hawaii.edu
Phone: (808) 956-7077
If researchers require data beyond information available in the report, researchers can submit a request to the Office of EEO/TIX at eeo@hawaii.edu. The request should include:
- Researcher’s Full Name
- Job Title
- Department/Agency (if applicable)
- Contact Information (phone number, email address, address)
- A list of all data elements needed for analysis
The results of the survey are available on the Office of EEO/TIX website under Survey Results & Methodology.
Participation in the survey is voluntary. Individual survey responses are confidential. A National Institutes for Health Certificate of Confidentiality (CoC) was obtained for this survey to protect the privacy of participants. For more info about the CoC and the protections provided, visit the NIH website.
The 2025 Survey will be offered to enrolled students ages 18+ on all 10 UH campuses.
After careful consideration of the costs and benefits of a census versus a sample survey, UH decided to proceed with a census survey. A large part of the decision was because of UH’s unique community, and a desire to ensure representation of all of the various sub-populations on UH’s campuses.
For consistency and comparison, the publicly available and previously tested survey questions developed by the Association of American Universities in its 2015 study for 27 Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) formed the base of the survey design, particularly the questions asking about incidence and prevalence of sexual harassment and sex-based violence.
The 2023 survey instrument included 149 questions organized into 12 sections. The questions were designed to identify conduct which UH is interested in preventing, and for student accessibility.
While the questionnaire has generally remained consistent period to period to permit longitudinal tracking and changes, some revisions were made to align definitions to U.S. federal definitions or to reflect changes in national best practice.
The survey is being coordinated by UH’s Office of EEO/TIX.
Consultants
UH contracted with OmniTrak Group, Inc. to undertake the survey. OmniTrak, an independent Hawai‘i-based market research company is led by the Honorable Patricia M. Loui, a former United Nations social development planner with 35 years of expertise researching sensitive subjects in the State.
Researchers
For this survey, OmniTrak teamed with two well-known national subject matter experts: Professor Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., and Professor Bonnie S. Fisher, Ph.D., who consulted on the Association of American Universities (AAU) 2015 Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct. They joined OmniTrak’s team in the pre-planning stage, and they have remained actively involved through analysis, writing and presentation of results.