Niagara College is pleased to invite you to participate in the 2026 Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey!

Student wellbeing includes the factors that influence students’ mental and physical health, sense of belonging, and overall experience at Niagara College. Supporting student wellbeing is a key priority for NC. Your feedback will help inform improvements to programs, services, and policies that promote student health and wellbeing – both now and in the future.

The survey is being conducted at Niagara College by NC’s Health, Wellness and Accessibility Services department, with support from Institutional Analytics & Reporting (IAR).

What Participation Involves

Your participation in this online survey is voluntary. Your responses are confidential. Only combined results will be reported. Participating in this survey will not impact your status at Niagara College.

This survey asks about different aspects of your wellbeing and health behaviors and will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete; written comments/ideas/suggestions take additional time depending on the length of the response you may choose to provide. Students can stop the survey and return to complete it later at any time during the survey period.

The questions in the survey are from well-established surveys often used in Canadian populations. However, there is a potential that some questions focused on mental health may spark uncomfortable feelings. There are two questions related to suicide risk within the last year.

Confidentiality and Uses

All responses are confidential. Responses will be reported in aggregate, except for comments which will be anonymized but otherwise reported as submitted. All data will be securely stored per the policies below:

• https://www.qualtrics.com/privacy-statement/
• https://www.ccws-becc.ca/data-access-publications
• https://universitycounsel.ubc.ca/policies/information-systems-policy/
• Niagara College Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Policy

This survey is being conducted nationwide by the University of British Columbia (UBC) and administered locally by Institutional Analytics & Reporting (IAR) on behalf of Niagara College. Anonymized NC data may be shared with other departments at Niagara College for additional analysis.

Students’ survey responses are confidential and will be anonymized prior to analysis, ensuring they cannot be linked back to individual students. De-identified information may be used by Niagara College and the UBC research team to better understand student health and wellbeing and to inform evidence-based decisions, programs, services, and supports. Results are reported only in aggregated form. Anonymized datasets may also be shared with and used by approved researchers for research related to student health and wellbeing. The privacy and confidentiality of provided information will be protected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990.

By starting this survey you are giving your informed consent to the collection of the information in the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey. Your data will be anonymously stored in a data registry. The data registry is solely under the custodianship of the CCWS analysts and may only be accessed through case-level datasets prepared by CCWS analysts for approved researchers and third-parties for research purposes.

You can withdraw your responses by submitting this request form. Please note that you only have the option to do this before the survey closes, at which point the data is collected and processed.

The CCWS will be administered via the University of British Columbia Survey Tool, a cloud-based service provisioned by Qualtrics. It complies with the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) as the data are kept secure and are stored and backed up in Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. The Survey Tool has completed UBC’s Privacy Impact Assessment process, which assesses the privacy and security of UBC systems. Information collected using the Survey Tool is kept secure using measures including data encryption.

If you have any concerns or complaints about your rights as a research participant and/or your experiences while participating in this study, contact the Research Participant Complaint Line in the UBC Office of Research Ethics at 604-822-8598 or if long distance e-mail [email protected] or call toll free 1-877-822-8598.

Research Ethics Review

The CCWS team has completed the TCPS2 and is committed to executing the presented services in compliance with data privacy, scientific rigour and integrity, as well as ethical conduct in data collection and processing. To this end, it shall adhere to all ethics and privacy rules set forth in the Tri-Council Policy Statement as well as those stated by the participating institutions, so as to protect the confidentiality of institutions and students participating in the survey and/or prevent disclosure about the current state of programs in a given institution.

CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC (2014). Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. Ottawa: Government of Canada. https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/documents/tcps2-2022-en.pdf

The Niagara College Research Ethics Board has reviewed the above-named research study and granted clearance to proceed at Niagara College. For more information, visit: Niagaracollege.ca/researchethicsboard.

Accessibility

The CCWS is administered by the UBC via a cloud-based service provisioned by Qualtrics, which has a tool called ExpertReview to help ensure the survey meets WCAG 2.0 AA and Section 508 accessibility standards, making it user-friendly for respondents with third-party screen readers like JAWS.

Should you require alternative accessible options to complete the survey, please email the HWAS reception desk [email protected] serving students enrolled at Niagara College campuses in Niagara region.