WebSurveyor Extends its Academic Grant Program

WebSurveyor Extends its Academic Grant Program

Universities Can Take Advantage of WebSurveyor 5.0 for Instruction for Two Years

HERNDON, Va., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- WebSurveyor Corporation, the leading provider of online surveys, announced today that is has extended its Academic Grant Program to two years. In addition, it has made WebSurveyor 5.0, a new high-end survey tool that helps organizations rapidly gather and analyze mission-critical data, a part of the package. Colleges and universities get a two-year renewable product license for teaching and research, which includes software, updates, and support. The commercial value of the software provided is $60,000.

WebSurveyor offers its Academic Grant Program to academic institutions with a marketing, market research, general business, hotel management, computer science, or social science curriculum. Grant recipients receive computer software and support materials applicable for collegiate level instruction of the practical use of online surveys. Instructors at universities, colleges, community colleges, business and trade schools are encouraged to apply. WebSurveyor continues to offer a preferred discount program for educational institutions that want to use the software for business use.

"WebSurveyor has extended and enhanced its grant offerings to enable educational institutions to conduct state-of-the-art online surveys," said Tom Lueker, CMO at WebSurveyor. "WebSurveyor 5.0, provided through this program, will give students the boundless opportunity to master advanced research methods used by business leaders for their e-commerce, CRM and market research initiatives."

With 60 institutions already participating in the program, WebSurveyor has donated a cumulative value of $3.6 million to academic institutions worldwide. Participating universities include Colorado State University, Cornell University, Dubai Women's College, Indiana University, James Madison University, Lynchburg College, McMaster University, Michigan State University, Texas Tech University, the University of Manchester, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Oregon and the University of Southern California.

"WebSurveyor gives our faculty and students unlimited access to conduct state-of-the-art online surveys," said George Miaoulis, Jr. Ph.D., Donaldson Brown professor of marketing at Lynchburg College. "The WebSurveyor software enables my students to build real-world surveys and get results fast. We can raise an issue in class, and my students can create a survey, and have the results to discuss the next session. I can focus on teaching my students on how to properly develop questionnaires and analyze results instead of focusing on what used to be the cumbersome data collection process. WebSurveyor is a real teaching advantage."

"WebSurveyor's Academic Grant Program gives students access to the next generation of tools for conducting surveys," said WebSurveyor Director of Services Larry Kilbourne, Ph.D. "Where surveying has traditionally been a very time-consuming and expensive endeavor, WebSurveyor puts a powerful tool into the hands of students as well as professional researchers to enable them to rapidly collect data through online surveys at no cost to the student or the university."

Instructors at universities, colleges, community colleges and private educational institutions are eligible to apply. In order to be considered for the grant, applicants must meet the following criteria:

* Applicant must be an employee of a university, college, community
college, or private educational institution.

* Applicant must teach at least one course where the use of online surveys
can be incorporated into the curriculum and students can be required to
complete hands-on exercises or team projects.

* Applicant cannot already be a WebSurveyor customer.

* Applicant cannot be employed by, or serve in an advisory capacity, to
any company that offers software or hosting services to conduct online
surveys.



Interested universities should visit http://www.websurveyor.com/grant for more information.

About WebSurveyor Corporation

WebSurveyor helps organizations survey the people who matter most. WebSurveyor Corporation is recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in America by the Inc. 500, and is the winner of the National Capital Ethics Award for outstanding business practices. The WebSurveyor product was awarded a Stevie for best new product by the American Business Awards. WebSurveyor's online survey tools, along with educational resources and a dedicated team of advisors, help thousands of organizations worldwide quickly and easily produce actionable results, essential to their ever- changing needs. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.websurveyor.com/.


Source: WebSurveyor Corporation

CONTACT: Michelle McCann, Director Corporate Communications of
WebSurveyor Corporation +1-703-481-9326, x 218, cell: +1-703-380-0888, or
mmccann@websurveyor.com

Web site: http://www.websurveyor.com/


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