The Great Race, Communications Relay, Pegasus Drill, and Final Ball won’t be the only things going on during the last week of camp this summer for Culver Military Academy Summer campers, staff, and parents. They, along with select Woodcrafters and Specialty campers, will also be asked to fill out a new survey commissioned by the Culver Summer Schools Alumni Assocation in order to guage the effectiveness of Culver’s current marketing efforts, processes, and curriculum.

The surveys are being funded by the CSSAA, produced and conducted by Indianapolis-based Loyalty Research Center, and will be overseen by the CSSAA Program and Student Life Committee. The questions posed to campers, staff, and parents will be a little different for each group and parents will have the option of filling it out online.

According to Stan Mefford (CSSAA board member WC‘71 NB‘74, the surveys are meant to “see how good of a job Culver is doing with its summer programs” and will be examined very closely by the Culver Educational Foundation, CSSAA, and the Culver Summer Schools and Camps Administration. “The CSSAA board believes that it is important to see what our customers see, to understand why people come to Culver and who they are demographically,” says Mefford.

Though the impact of the information gleaned from these surveys may not be felt for some time Mefford says the results will eventually be used “to understand the perception, market more precisely, and to improve the summer programs.” According to him “the CSSAA board believes that Culver’s summer program has no equal throughout the country” and has commissioned this survey to understand how Culver can continue in its excellence in their summer programs.

What do you think about this? Leave a comment.

And here we are folks with the fourth and final part of Go Culver.com’s look at recent announcements for summer 2006. This time we’re looking at some changes afoot over at the Woodcraft Camp as well as some very good news for Upper Camp course offerings. As always, head on over to the CulverTalk Forums to discuss afterwards.

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Welcome to Part Three of GoCulver.com’s four-part Summer 2006 Preview in which we continue our walk through the announcements sent to Upper Camp Sr. Counselors by Tony Mayfield, Director of Summer Schools and Camps on March 8, 2006. In this installment, as promised, we’ll be talking Tuxis.

As always, after you read today’s update be sure to pop over to the CulverTalk forums to respond.

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Welcome back for part two of our Summer 2006 Preview. Yesterday we took a look at some of the announcements Culver’s made about the Naval Program for this coming summer.

Today we’re going to be looking at what the Culver Academy has so far let out about the Aviation Program this summer. When you’re done reading through be sure to post a comment to the Summer 2006 Preview Thread over in the CulverTalk forums.

Tomorrow we’ll be talking Tuxis!

As expected, in the wake of last summer’s tragic incident, Culver will be shaking things up in the Upper Camp Aviation Program this year, largely out of necessesity. The air fleet will, in all likelihood, remain grounded throughout the summer pending the findings of the FAA’s ongoing investigation. More »

Last Wednesday I and all other returning Sr. Counselors received a letter from Tony Mayfield, Director of Culver Summer Schools and Camps, that included several really exciting announcements for this upcoming summer 2006. I’ve written them up along with my thoughts and will be sharing them here on GoCulver.com piece by piece each day all week long.

Today we’ll be looking at developments for the Naval School, on Wednesday we’ll be looking at the latest word on the Aviation Program for this summer, on Thursday stop by to get a glance at rumored changes to the Tuxis Program along with some historical context and suggestions for a few extremely important things Culver should address in the program, and finally on Friday we’ll be running through the rest of Mr. Mayfield’s announcements including news of some big changes for Woodcraft and course offerings.

If this doesn’t get you pumped up for this summer I don’t know what will.

Let’s jump right in to looking at what’s in store for the Naval Program this summer! When you’re done head on over to the CulverTalk discussion thread for this series of articles to post your thoughts on the announcements. Some of them should get people talking.

Click to read Summer 2006 Preview Part 1: the Naval Program