<div dir="auto">Hi all, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please consider signing up and pass this along to your constituencies. We only have 24 people signed up so far. It's a great opportunity to shape the future of MIT grad housing!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Nicholas</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><br><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">
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<div><font face="Helvetica-Light" size="3">Please see the message below about participating in focus groups on graduate housing, led by a market research firm employed by the Graduate Housing Working Group. </font></div>
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<font face="Helvetica-Light">Before the start of term, Chancellor Barnhart established the Graduate Housing Working Group, which is working to ensure that the Institute is positioned to respond effectively to and evaluate complex topics associated with graduate
student housing needs. One way we are pursing this work is to have Applied Marketing Science (AMS), a market research firm with MIT roots, help us design a conjoint study to understand the demand for different housing types across MIT market segments, and
the willingness-to-pay for those options. This is generally regarded as the most rigorous technique for determining preferences for <wbr>different combinations of features. The next step in this work is to hold short focus groups with graduate students who live
in different residence halls and off-campus, during which AMS will ask you a series of questions about your living preferences. This will enable AMS to design a web-based study that will be open to all MIT graduate students.<br>
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<b>These focus groups will be held on Thursday, September 14, between 4-7 PM and Tuesday, September 19 between 1:30-3 PM.</b> <b>If you are interested in participating, please visit </b><a href="http://bit.ly/mitamsfocusgrp" target="_blank"><b>http://bit.ly/<wbr>mitamsfocusgrp</b></a> to
answer a few questions, and we will let you know which focus group time and room you were selected to attend. Refreshments and beverages will be available for participants. Anyone who is not selected for the focus groups or possible future testing sessions
will still get a chance to provide their input in the survey when it goes out to all graduate students at the end of the month.</font></div>
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