HERI FACULTY SURVEY • Surveys mailed through campus mail to all Full-Time faculty during the Spring 2005 semester • A follow-up second mailing for non-respondents was conducted 4 weeks later • Approximately, 50% of the Full- Time Undergraduate faculty responded.
HERI FACULTY SURVEY Surveys mailed through campus mail to all Full-Time faculty during the Spring 2005 semester A follow-up second mailing for non- respondents.
Jan 01, 2016
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HERI FACULTY SURVEY
• Surveys mailed through campus mail to all Full-Time faculty during the Spring 2005 semester
• A follow-up second mailing for non-respondents was conducted 4 weeks later
• Approximately, 50% of the Full-Time Undergraduate faculty responded.
DO YOU, TO A GREAT EXTENT:
Do you, to a great extent: engage in academic work that spans multiple disciplines?
46.9
30.3 32.0
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Do you, to a great extent: feel that the training you received in graduate school prepared you well for
your role as a faculty mentor?
59.4
37.8 37.1
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Do you, to a great extent: achieve a healthy balance between your personal life and your professional life?
59.440.9 37.5
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Do you, to a great extent: feel that your work adds meaning to your life?
90.6
71.7 72.1
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Do you, to a great extent: consider yourself a religious person?
53.3 41.644.2
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Do you, to a great extent: experience close alignment between your work and your personal values?
78.163.0
65.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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Do you, to a great extent: seek opportunities to grow spiritually?
60.0
36.2 38.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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100.0
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Do you, to a great extent: feel that you have to work harder than your colleagues to be perceived as a
legitimate scholar?
40.0
20.5 20.70.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
STUCatholic yr. CollsAll Priv 4-yr Colls
GOALS FOR UNDERGRADUATES NOTED AS ‘VERY IMPORTANT’ OR
‘ESSENTIAL’:
Prepare students for employment after college
90.375.8
71.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Develop moral character
83.973.5
69.2
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Enhance student’s knowledge of and appreciation for other racial/ethnic
groups
76.766.3 64.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Instill a basic appreciation of the liberal arts
56.7
67.8 70.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Enhance spiritual Development
60.0
40.9 39.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
100.0
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Personal goals noted as ‘very important’ ‘or essential’:
Becoming an authority in my field
58.643.9 44.9
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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Influencing the political structure
37.9
19.5 18.30.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
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%
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Being very well off financially
48.336.6 37.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Helping to promote racial understanding
79.3
58.3 57.9
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
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%
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Integrating spirituality into my life
69.055.5 55.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Achieving congruence between my own values and institutional values
86.2
64.2 62.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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AGREE ‘STRONGLY’ OR ‘SOMEWHAT’:
Racial and ethnic diversity should be more strongly reflected in the
curriculum
51.6
61.9 60.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Faculty feel that most students are well-prepared academically
23.3
36.244.9
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
100.0
%
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Faculty here are strongly interested in the academic problems of
undergraduates
72.4
88.6 90.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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Most students are strongly committed to community service
38.7
54.0 53.5
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
100.0
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My research is valued by faculty in my department
51.6
68.7 71.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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There is adequate support for integrating technology in my teaching
58.1
74.8 77.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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There is adequate support for integrating technology in my teaching
58.1
74.8 77.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
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%
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My department has difficulty recruiting faculty
29.0
39.7 36.4
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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ISSUES YOU BELIEVE TO BE OF ‘HIGH’ OR ‘HIGHEST’
PRIORITY AT YOUR INSTITUTION:
To promote the intellectual development of students
74.2
86.7 87.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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To enhance the institution’s national image
71.058.8
63.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
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To help students learn how to bring about change in American society
61.346.2
42.7
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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To create a diverse multi-cultural campus environment
80.0
50.9 53.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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100.0
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ATTRIBUTES NOTED AS BEING ‘VERY DESCRIPTIVE’
OF YOUR INSTITUTION:
It is easy for students to see faculty outside of regular office hours
51.6
68.474.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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The faculty are typically at odds with campus administration
25.816.9 12.6
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Faculty here respect each other
38.7
55.8 59.2
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
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%
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Most students are treated like ‘numbers in a book’
13.3 1.1 1.10.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
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90.0
100.0
%
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There is respect for the expression of diverse values and beliefs
59.4
36.1 35.4
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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ASPECTS OF YOUR JOB NOTED AS ‘VERY
SATISFACTORY’ OR
‘‘SATISFACTORY’’
Teaching load
70.0
52.8 51.7
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Social relationships with other faculty
85.770.5 69.2
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Competency of colleagues
56.7
79.9 81.9
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Relationship with administration
70.056.9
61.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Factors noted as a source of stress for you during the last two years:
Faculty Meetings
72.456.2
49.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Teaching Load
48.3
68.2 69.9
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Lack of Personal Time
51.7
73.8 76.6
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Being part of a dual career couple
13.8
35.5 38.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Self-imposed high expectations
58.6
77.5 80.1
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Agree ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’:
The chief benefit of a college education is that it increases one’s earning power
45.2
25.6 22.60.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Tenure is an outmoded concept
46.7
32.9 33.8
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Tenure is essential to attract the best minds to academe
46.761.9 60.3
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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Colleges should be concerned with facilitating undergraduate students’
spiritual development
80.0
62.453.5
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
50.0
60.0
70.0
80.0
90.0
100.0
%
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