ECU Covid-19 Impact Survey

The entire ECU community of students, faculty, and staff have been working through the challenges of Covid-19. The impact of the pandemic on our communities, on our families, our friends, our co-workers, perhaps even on ourselves has caused disruptions that affect nearly every aspect of our lives. The entire ECU community is experiencing this and being affected by it. Yet, we are not all experiencing it or being affected by it in the same ways. This project is an effort to understand the different ways the pandemic has affected the broader ECU community.

Project Overview

two people discussing a document ECU’s Center for Survey Research (CSR), Dr. Bob Edwards in the Department of Sociology at ECU, and Dr. Marieke Van Willigen in the Department of Sociology at Georgia Southern University developed and administered two surveys to gather data on a broad range of Covid-19 impacts and responses from the ECU community. The two survey questionnaires followed a previous one administered to ECU students in January 2000, which probed the economic, health, social, and educational impacts of the extensive flooding and closure of the ECU campus following Hurricane Floyd during the fall semester of 1999. ECU’s CSR administered the first of two Covid-19 impact surveys to a random sample of ECU students and employees in the summer of 2020, and a second survey to a random sample of students in the fall of 2020. The results produced from both surveys shed light on the educational, health, economic, and social effects of both Covid-19 and ECU’s partial closure and complete shift to distance and online instruction.