EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

Chapter 1 ! Personnel development and organisational culture 71
Students have most contact with students from another social background. Students
have the least contact with students with disabilities. Another striking result is that there
is an equal amount of students who have daily contact with LGB students and of those
who seldom have contact with LGB students.
The analysis of part two on well-being revealed that students feel moderately good,
with a score of 8.03/10. Like at the VUB, just over 9% of the students report discrimination,
intimidation and/or aggression. Intimidation on grounds of appearance and
ideas are most common. Aggression was reported once, on unknown grounds. Mostly
fellow students seem to discriminate and intimidate (44%), compared to teaching staff
(30%) and administrative staff (25.7%).
On the scale about attitude towards projects and initiatives, students of EHSAL
(N = 165) score an average of 21.8, which shows that the respondents find the projects
and initiatives moderately important since it is closer to 9 (best score = respondents
find all the projects very important) than to 36 (worst score = respondents find
all the projects very unimportant). As sixty percent of the respondents declared having
‘no opinion’ at least once, only 40% is included in the score mentioned above. A significant
difference was found between the sexes when comparing this score. Women
attach more importance to these initiatives than men do. Hetero and LGB students
also differ significantly in the extent to which they attach importance to initiatives. LGB
students consider them more important. When we look at some items separately, we
find that female students find the 1/3-2/3 gender directive on boards and committees
significantly more important than male students. Like at the VUB, an overwhelming
majority (91.8%) considers language lessons to be important to very important. They
attach the least importance to the LGB guide.
Concerning student services at EHSAL, study support and the use of laptops are
most commonly known to students: 75% and 72.6% of the respondents respectively
know these facilities. The service least known to respondents is the possibility to check
for a learning disability: only 27.6% of the respondents know this facility. The service
that is most used by the respondents are the computer facilities (94.4% of the respondents
use them). It is also the facility that gets the most importance. A lot of importance
is also attached to the centre for study and psychological support. The least importance
is attached to the vegetarian menu.
5. Conclusions and recommendations
After several tests of the personnel survey as well as the student survey, we can conclude
that this is an instrument that takes into account the different aspects of diversity
in an organization. It indicates the level of equal opportunities and diversity matters the
organization has reached. It also raises the respondents’ awareness since they have to
think about issues they may not have thought about before. However, the first part