Explore the Survey of Travel, Mobility and the Campus Community
The Survey of Travel, Mobility, and the Campus Community was created out of an existing project, the Michigan Middle East Travelers Oral History Project (MMETOHP). In its first phase, MMETOHP explored the agency of travelers in navigating “regimes of im/mobilty” to maintain contact with friends and family in the Middle East through oral history interviews that were collected and curated by faculty, staff, and students.
During its second phase, MMETOHP is focusing its interviews on members of the Dearborn campus community who have traveled to the Middle East in conjunction with an exploration into feelings of belonging in the Dearborn campus community.
In early 2025, researchers developed and deployed the survey for staff, students, faculty, alumni, and retirees to explore these issues across all segments of the campus community. In fall 2025, the research team will use these results to identify participants for focus groups and potential interviewees not only for MMETOHP, but also for an emerging tri-campus IHP project site tentatively titled The University of Michigan in the Middle East. The project site seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of the institution’s relationship with the MENA region, communities, and MENA-related academic fields.
Use the buttons below to view data visualizations representing different aspects of the findings or the raw data.
Participant Characteristics
In this section, we invite you to explore the characteristics of the participants in the May 2025 run of the Survey of Travel, Mobility and the Campus Community. The research team identified characteristics including the on-campus affiliation of the participants, their age range, gender, and inquired how people in campus community identify their heritage. We invite you to explore all this and more by clicking the button below!
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UM-Dearborn Community's Sense of Belonging
One of the driving forces behind the creation of this survey was a desire to understand feelings of belonging and connectedness within the UM-Dearborn community.
We invite you to explore the campus community's views on belonging by clicking the button below!
UM-Dearborn Community & Middle East Travel
The UM-Dearborn campus and its community have deep connections to the Middle East. In addition to researching feelings of belonging and connectedness on campus, the research team also asked how the participants' past travel experiences have impacted their views of campus, Michigan, the United States, and the Middle Eastern countries they have visited.
We invite you to explore data about the UM-Dearborn community and their travel to the Middle East by clicking the button below.
Raw Survey Data
Want to know more about the UM-Dearborn community? The research team has made the dataset available for others to view and analyze. Take a deeper look at the data by clicking the button below.