The University of Michigan is conducting an extensive study of health care and insurance issues among our students. As a parent/guardian of a student presently enrolled at the University, you have been randomly selected to participate in this survey.  This research effort will help us to evaluate how health care services at the University Health Service for students should be funded, and the role (if any) the University should take in providing health insurance coverage for students. 

If you have questions about the survey, please contact Nancy Helmick at the email or phone numbers listed below.  The deadline for participation in the survey is July 5, 2000.

We expect the survey will take you approximately 10 minutes to complete.  We are doing everything possible to assure the confidentiality of the survey participants' responses.  Although we have taken appropriate steps relative to survey data confidentiality, such as using a secure server, there is no way to provide an absolute assurance that data transmitted over the Internet will remain secure. 

At the conclusion of the survey, you will be given the option to provide comments to the consulting firm that is assisting the University with this research effort, Stephen L. Beckley & Associates (SLBA). Providing SLBA with any comments you may have about the survey is completely optional. 

If you have questions about the survey, you may contact Nancy Helmick (uhssurvey@umich.edu) at the University Health Service by telephone at (734) 763-1479. Our survey has been approved by the University's Institutional Review Board. This Board oversees the use of research projects involving human subjects. 

Thank you for participating in this important research effort about the future of health care services and health insurance programming at the University of Michigan.