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Summary of the 2009 Faculty Experience Survey

Summary of the 2009 Faculty Experience Survey. Full-time Faculty. This survey had 63 questions specific to our experience at BMCC and our departments. There were 10 categories of questions: 1) Your Campus and Department 2) Facilities, Programs, and Resources

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Summary of the 2009 Faculty Experience Survey

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  1. Summary of the 2009 Faculty Experience Survey

  2. Full-time Faculty • This survey had 63 questions specific to our experience at BMCC and our departments. • There were 10 categories of questions: 1) Your Campus and Department 2) Facilities, Programs, and Resources 3) Services, Functions, and Grant Support* 4) Elements of Job Satisfaction 5) Satisfaction with College Culture+ 6) Attitudes toward CUNY-Wide initiatives 7) Opinions about New CUNY Initiatives: In Principle and Implementation at Your College* 8) Department or Program Decision-Making* 9) Recruiting for Diversity and Climate for women Faculty and Faculty of Color 10) Satisfaction with Your CUNY Career and its Progression *The categories with which people were most satisfied +The category with the worst rating of satisfaction

  3. Rating • The questionnaire used a 5-point Likertscale • The response rate for full-time faculty was 37.1% (152/410), a statistically significant number. The UFS summary data calculated the number and percentages of 4 and 5-rated responses (positively rated), then compared those answers across campuses. • Of the 63 questions, we ranked lower than the CUNY average on all but seven questions. • There are 24 items that we rated at least 10% lower than the CUNY average.

  4. Full-time Faculty Like …. • Bathrooms • Bookstore • Help with grants • Department help with improving our teaching • Department taking steps to enhance the climate for faculty of color • Writing across the curriculum initiative • Online courses

  5. Full-time Faculty Are Most Dissatisfied With…… • Class size (-29.3%) • Faculty influence on hiring new faculty (-25.4%) • Office space (-23.4%) • Off-campus access to your campus e-mail (-22.7%) • Availability of sabbaticals (-22.6%) • Level of respect shown to faculty by college Provost/Chief Academic Officer (-20.9%) • Support by administration for faculty decision on academic integrity (cheating, plagiarism, and grades) (-20.8%) • Administrative support for free expression of ideas (-18.7%) • Tech support for computer-related activities (-18.1%) • Your workload (-16.2%)

  6. Part-time Faculty • 169/835 response rate (20.2%) • Twenty-nine items, four categories: • Selected work conditions • Facilities, Programs, and Resources • Services, Functions, and Grant Support • Elements of Job Satisfaction • 20/29 items rated lower than the CUNY average.  • Eight were rated at least 10% worse than the CUNY average.

  7. Part-timers Like …. • Bathrooms • Photocopying • Security • Availability of small grants • Health care benefits

  8. What Part-timers Don’t Like …. • Receive schedule for next term in prior term (-22.1%) • Office Space (-15.3%) • Tech support for computer-related activities (-13.5%) • Library holdings: printed books and journals (-12.9%) • Library holdings: electronic resources (-12.1%) • Off-campus access to your campus email (-11.6%) • Your authority to set standards and grading policies (-10%) • Class size (-14.2%)

  9. The Committee Recommends…. • The committee recommends that we initially focus our efforts on understanding the most critical category: Satisfaction with College Culture, the lowest rated category. Fully 9/10 items in this category had satisfaction rates at least 10% worse than the rest of CUNY.

  10. Satisfaction with College Culture Category • The category consisted of the following items: • Faculty influence on college policies (-11.9%) • Faculty influence on the direction and development of curriculum (-11.9%) • Faculty influence on hiring new faculty (-25.4%) • Faculty influence on hiring top level administrators (-12.6%) • Support by administration for faculty decisions on academic integrity (cheating, plagiarism) (-20.8%) • Level of respect shown to faculty by college President (-12.4%) • Level of respect shown to faculty by college Provost/Chief Academic Officer (-20.9%) • Administrative support for intellectual life (-16.0%) • Administrative support for free expression of ideas (-18.7%) • Transparency of budget allocations (lines and other fund) within the college (-3.9%)

  11. Committee Members • Sarah Salm • Anne Friedman • Hollis Glaser • Owen Meyers • Joyce Moorman • Lisa Rose

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