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The AOG Responds

I received the following response to my open letter to the AOG on 21 Jun 2022. With Mr. Hornsby's permission, I'm posting his entire email here: Dear Mr. Dunphy: Thank you for taking the time to share robust feedback on the Association of Graduates’ 2022 survey of USAFA graduates. Your thoughtful analysis is greatly appreciated. I discussed your analysis with Naviere Walkewicz ’99, Senior Vice President of Alumni Relations and Business Development, and would like to share some information that I hope will be helpful in providing context. The main goals of the 2022 survey were to: 1) solicit graduate feedback as the AOG commences its strategic planning to create an association that is a value-add for grads and has influence and impact, 2) establish new baselines that we can measure against to assess effectiveness going forward, and 3) share in a transparent fashion how graduates feel about their Academy and association today. We anticipate a more regular cadence of graduate sur
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Concerns About the USAFA AOG 2022 Survey

by Scott Dunphy, USAFA Class of 1994 The June 2022 issue of Checkpoints published some of the results of the recent survey of United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) alumni with the promise of publishing the full results later this summer. The survey achieved a very large sample size and confidence level, which is excellent and should make the result highly valuable. While the magazine put a positive spin on the results, I find them to be alarming and I’m concerned that the Association of Graduates (AOG) is completely missing the point. I’m writing this document as an open letter to the AOG in hopes that they will address these concerns. The main focus of the issue is on “the six USAFA personas” – a survey question that asked respondents to describe themselves using one of six defined phrases. Here are the six personas and the survey results (Holmquist 17): Actively Engaged 7% Proud and Show It 26% Inwardly Proud 47% Not Valued by USAFA 7% Lost Interest in USAFA 5% At
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