Each year, more than 2,000 attorneys and other professionals plan and teach Minnesota CLE seminars and write and edit our publications.  You are one of those people, and we thank you!

We are conducting a survey to learn about the demographic characteristics of our presenters, planners, editors, and authors.  The goal is to better understand our current diversity and inclusivity and to assist in measuring our continued efforts to incorporate even more diversity. (If you responded to our similar survey in 2017 and/or 2019, it is important that you please respond again as the information from this survey captures a different time period.)

This data will be used to prepare aggregate statistics about the diversity of our Fiscal Year 2020, 2021 and 2022 groups (July 2019-June 2022).  Minnesota CLE respects your privacy and will not use the data to attempt to identify you.

A short privacy notice and an explanation of a donation incentive are set forth below. When you wish to take the survey, please go to MNCLE 2022 Survey.  Enter the password: MNCLE2022  

This survey asks about race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, county or state of practice, and disability status which we need to assess diversity and inclusivity.  We have contracted with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (“Wilder”) to conduct this survey.  Wilder has used SurveyMonkey to set up the survey and has set SurveyMonkey to collect your responses anonymously with the intention that your responses will not be connected to any of your personally identifiable information.  Minnesota CLE will not share your e-mail address with Wilder or SurveyMonkey.  Wilder will use the anonymous results to prepare a report and will not share individual raw data with Minnesota CLE. When Wilder reports on the results of this survey to Minnesota CLE, it will do so by combining answers of all survey recipients in a summary.  After the project has been completed, Wilder will destroy its records of data collected.  Please see SurveyMonkey’s (Momentive Inc.) Privacy Notice, California Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice regarding Cookies Used on Survey Pages, and Security Statement regarding how SurveyMonkey handles respondent data.

Our goal is to reach at least a 20% response rate for this survey. Minnesota CLE will make a donation to the Minnesota State Bar Association Foundation in the amount of $1,000 if we reach 10%, or $1,500 if we reach 15%, or $2,000 if we reach 20%.  Because Minnesota CLE and Wilder are not tracking your IP address in conjunction with this survey, you will receive several e-mail reminders from Minnesota CLE regarding this survey (though you will be able to complete the survey only one time). We’ll take those upcoming opportunities to let you know the response rate, to date.

Again, to take the survey, visit MNCLE 2022 Survey.

Enter the password: MNCLE2022

If you have any questions, please contact: Amanda Petersen, Wilder Research, amanda.petersen@wilder.org

Thank you!

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