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The Faculty Experience: Using the HERI Faculty Survey to Examine Work, Stress, and Satisfaction
Ellen Bara Stolzenberg, Ph.D. Jennifer Berdan Lozano Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
presents
Katherine Kelly, Ph.D.Director and Senior Writer, Interfolio
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Ellen Bara Stolzenberg, Ph.D.Assistant Director, CIRP
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT UCLA HOME OF THE COOPERATIVE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
Jennifer Berdan LozanoResearch Analyst
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT UCLA HOME OF THE COOPERATIVE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
Webinar Themes Using the HERI Faculty Survey to Measure Faculty Stress and Satisfaction
1 Faculty Service: The value of service across cohorts, the time it takes, and the stress that it causes for faculty.
2 Research: Differences in perceptions of value, the connection between funding and ethics, and the time spent on scholarly research and writing.
3 Teaching: Time involved teaching vs. time involved in teaching prep; Teaching loads of full-‐time vs. part-‐time faculty.
4 Part-‐Time Faculty: Resources for part-‐time faculty, and their perception on campus.
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT UCLA HOME OF THE COOPERATIVE INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
HIGHER EDUCATION
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
HERI Mission Statement
“The mission of the Higher Education Research Institute is to inform educational policy and promote institutional improvement through an increased understanding of higher education and its impact on college students.”
We accomplish this mission by: • Working in cooperation with institutions of higher education
• Producing and disseminating original research
• Providing the tools and resources to utilize research at the institutional level
• Training researchers to advance institutional assessment and scholarship in higher education
• Developing partnerships with higher education organizations to promote institutional excellence
Two Dimensions of HERI
• Annual Student Surveys • Triennial Faculty Survey
• HHMI • Helmsley Trust • National Institutes of Health • National Science Foundation
Grant- Funded
Research
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THE HERI FACULTY SURVEY
About the HERI Faculty Survey
Administered triennially since 1989. More than half a million faculty at over 1,100 two- and four-year colleges and universities have participated. The HERI Faculty Survey is a comprehensive instrument designed to: • Understand perceptions of campus climate • Identify sources of stress and satisfaction • Assess research and service activities • Examine how faculty define their roles in undergraduate education • Assess pedagogical practices and relate them to student learning experiences • Understand experiences of part-time faculty • Assist in strategic planning • Aid in faculty recruitment and retention • Improve faculty development activities
2013-2014 HERI Faculty Survey
Sample Description • 16,112 Full-time undergraduate faculty from 269 four-year colleges and universities • These data are weighted to create a nationally normative profile using
data from the Human Resources Survey from the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
• 3,189 Part-time faculty from 171 four-year colleges and universities • Unweighted
Weighted Full-Time Undergraduate Faculty
78% are Tenure-Track
Of these faculty:
• Full Professors: 39.2% • Associate Professors: 35.3%
• Assistant Professors: 24.9%
22% are Non-Tenure-Track
Of these faculty:
• Full/Assoc. Professors: 21.0% • Assistant Professors: 31.3%
• Lecturer/Instructors: 47.6%
Weighted Full-Time Undergraduate Faculty
Sex: • 58.1% Men
• 41.9% Women
Race: • 83.4% White Faculty
• 16.6% Faculty of Color
Discipline: • 63.9% Non-Stem
• 36.1% STEM
Institution Type: • 37.2% Public Universities
• 16.2% Private Universities
• 24.0% Public 4yr Colleges
• 9.1% Private Non-Religious 4yr Colleges
• 4.9% Catholic Colleges
Part-Time Faculty, Unweighted
Sex: • 45.9% Men
• 54.1% Women
Race: • 83.1% White Faculty
• 16.9% Faculty of Color
Discipline: • 78.4% Non-Stem
• 21.6% STEM
Institution Type: • 12.8% Public Universities
• 16.3% Private Universities
• 19.7% Public 4yr Colleges
• 13.2% Private Non-Religious 4yr Colleges
• 9.6% Catholic Colleges
Full-Time Career Outside Academia: • 39.4%
Agenda
The three tenets of faculty work for both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty (full- and part-time): • Service
• Scholarship/Research
• Teaching
• Part-Time Faculty
Among these topics we will discuss how faculty feel their work is valued, how they allocate their time, and various stressors and measures of satisfaction that can impact their experiences on campus
Attendee Poll #1
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SERVICE
Value of Service
Most faculty value service and feel that their service is valued, however…
45.4
46.0
22.7
18.5
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Non
-Te
nure
-Tr
ack
Tenu
re-
Trac
k Importance of Service Very Important Essential
38.6
37.6
40.4
46.8
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Non
-Te
nure
-Tr
ack
Tenu
re-
Trac
k
% of Faculty
Feel Service is Valued Agree Somewhat
Agree Strongly
…Non-tenure-track faculty feel less valued
Women are more likely to place high importance on service.
49.5 49.7 43.7 41.2
18.8 24.3
18.3 20.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Tenure-Track Non-Tenure-Track Tenure-Track Non-Tenure-Track
Women Men
% o
f Fac
ulty
Very Important Essential
NTT Faculty in STEM Feel their service is less valued.
47.9 43.3 44.6
34.0
0
10
20
30
40
50
Tenure-Track Non-Tenure-Track Tenure-Track Non-Tenure-Track
Non-STEM STEM
% o
f Fac
ulty
Agree Strongly That Their Service is Valued
NTT Faculty spend less time on service.
Hours Per Week on Committee
Work
Tenure-Track %
Non-Tenure-Track %
None 4.7 17.9
1 to 4 53.6 58.7
5 to 8 28.6 16.1
9 or more 13.1 7.3
Tenure-track faculty are more stressed by service.
49.8
34.7
15.5
6.7
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Tenure-Track Non-Tenure-Track
% o
f Fac
ulty
Somewhat Extensive
Service: More time-consuming & stressful for women.
27.3 30.5
11.9 15.0
0 5
10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Men Women
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
Hours Spent Per Week on Committee Work & Meetings, by Sex
5 to 8 hrs 9 or more hrs
12.9
19.3
0 5 10 15 20 % of Tenure-Track Faculty
Feel Extensive Stress from Committee Work, by Sex
Associate professors feel the stress from their service work.
29.3 30.8 23.5
15.2 14.1
8.6
0 5
10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Full Assoc. Assist.
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
Hours Spent Per Week on Committee Work & Meetings, by Rank
5 to 8 hours 9 or more hours
46.2
55.5
47.0
15.9
17.2
14.1
0 20 40 60 80
Assi
st.
Asso
c.
Full
% of Tenure-Track Faculty
Feel Stress from Committee Work, by Rank
Somewhat Extensive
Committee work doesn’t have to be time-consuming to be
stressful.
Hours Per Week on Committee Work & Meetings % of Tenure-Track Faculty
1 to 4 hours 5 to 8 hours 9 or more hours
32.6 34.6 30.8
Tenure-track faculty who indicated their committee work was an extensive source of stress:
Faculty meetings are also stressful, especially for assoc. professors.
43.4
46.5
44.8
10.7
16.0
11.7
0 20 40 60 80
Assi
st.
Asso
c.
Full
% of Tenure-Track Faculty
Feel Stress from Faculty Meetings, by Rank
Somewhat Extensive
Part-time Faculty and Service
About 6 out of 10 (62.2%) part-time faculty believe service is important.
However, they are not engaged in service on campus: Time spent on committee work & meetings:
• 70.6% spend no time • 25.4% spend 1 to 4 hours per week But of these few that spend 1 to 4 hours a week, most feel that their service is valued by their department • 45.7% Agree strongly • 34.7% Agree somewhat
Attendee Poll #2
Q&A
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SCHOLARSHIP
Importance & Value of Research: Full-Time Faculty
NTT faculty are less likely to feel research is essential, however is it because…
32.5
28.5
26.2
54.0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Non
-Te
nure
-Tr
ack
Tenu
re-
Trac
k Importance of Research Very Important Essential
42.7
40.8
23.0
39.8
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Non
-Te
nure
-Tr
ack
Tenu
re-
Trac
k
% of Faculty
Feel Research is Valued by Department Agree Somewhat
Agree Strongly
…Non-tenure-track faculty feel their research is less valued?
Importance & Value of Research: Part-Time Faculty
Part-time faculty are even less likely to feel research is important or essential
29.6 22.8
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Part
-Tim
e
Importance of Research Very Important Essential
46.0 17.6
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Part
-tim
e
% of Faculty
Feel Research is Valued by Department Agree Somewhat
Agree Strongly
…And few part-time faculty feel their research is valued
Associate professors and women are less likely to feel their research
is valued.
44.0
34.3
40.8 42.1
36.5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Full Assoc. Assist. Men Women
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
Agree Strongly Their Research is Valued by Their Department
Tenure-track faculty receive more research funding.
Source of Funding
Tenure-Track %
Full-Time NNT %
State or Federal Gov’t 35.8 19.0
Foundations 25.5 15.0
Business/ Industry 11.8 9.0
And tenure-track faculty in STEM disciplines working at either public or private universities are more likely to receive research funding across the board
Funding and Ethics
Faculty believe that private funding sources often prevent researchers from being completely objective in the conduct of their work
44.0 46.8 38.2
46.8 37.5
11.5 14.1
13.9
15.2
8.5
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Professor Assoc. Professor Assist. Professor Non-STEM STEM
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
Agree Somewhat Agree Strongly
Tenure-track faculty spend more time on research and scholarly
writing. Hours Per
Week Tenure-Track
% Full-Time NTT
% Part-Time
%
None 10.3 37.6 58.7
1 to 4 32.0 33.3 23.0
5 to 8 20.5 12.8 8.0
9 to 12 13.4 5.9 3.9
13 to 20 13.5 5.8 3.5
21 or more 10.4 4.6 2.8
Tenure-track faculty that spend 21 or more hours per week on research & scholarly writing.
Rank: • 10.6% - Full
• 8.2% - Assoc.
• 13.1% - Assist.
Discipline: • 8.8% - Non-STEM • 13.5% - STEM
Institution Type: • 15.9% - Public Universities
• 19.4% - Private Universities
• 3.1% - Public 4yr Colleges • 4.7% - Private Non-Religious
Colleges • 4.6% - Catholic Colleges
Measuring Up to Their Peers Full-time non-tenure-track faculty are more likely to feel like they have to work harder than their colleagues to be perceived as a legitimate scholar… Feel to a Great Extent: • 26.8 % of Tenure-Track • 33.7% of Full-Time Non-Tenure-Track • 27.1% of Part-Time
18.2
29.9
37.8
0
10
20
30
40
Professor Assoc. Professor Assist. Professor
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
…but among tenure-track faculty, assistant professors feel the most pressure
Tenure-track faculty feel the stress from research & publishing
demands.
13.6
28.9
47.6
21.4
34.6 43.8
0
10
20
30
40
50
Full Assoc. Assist. Men Women 21 or more
Rank Sex Hours Per Week
% o
f Ten
ure-
Trac
k Fa
culty
Feel Extensive Stress from Research or Publishing Demands
Satisfaction with Opportunities for Scholarly Pursuits
Few faculty are very satisfied, especially full-time non-tenure-track and part-time faculty…
37.8 34.6
15.6
18.7
10.2
4.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Tenure-Track Full-Time NNT Part-Time
% o
f Fac
ulty
Very Satisfied Satisfied
Attendee Poll #3
Q&A
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TEACHING
Value of Teaching
Most faculty believe teaching is important and essential
21.2
18.9
26.5
76.7
78.2
70.4
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Part
-Tim
e Fu
ll-Ti
me
NN
T Te
nure
-Tr
ack
% of Faculty
Importance of Teaching
Very Important Essential
Value of Teaching
However, full-time non-tenure-track and part-time faculty feel less valued
39.5
34.7
33.1
47.9
49.9
56.0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Part
-Ti
me
Full-
Tim
e N
NT
Tenu
re-
Trac
k
% of Faculty
Feel Teaching is Valued
Agree Somewhat Agree Strongly
Hours Per Week Spent on Scheduled Teaching
17.9 15.6
38.1
32.6 26.1
28.4
28.8 31.9
15.1
12.7 20.6 12.6
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Tenure-Track Full-Time NNT Part-Time
% o
f Fac
ulty
13 or more 9 to 12 5 to 8 1 to 4
Hours Per Week Spent on Preparing for Teaching
13.3 13.2 30.4
24.9 23.3
28.2 22.2 21.7
18.1 32.8 37.6
19.3
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Tenure-Track Full-Time NNT Part-Time
% o
f Fac
ulty
13 or more 9 to 12 5 to 8 1 to 4
Full-Time Faculty Teaching Loads
Full-Time Faculty are most satisfied when teaching 1-2 courses in a term
…And stressed when their teaching load is 3 or more courses
# of Courses Satisfied %
Very Satisfied %
1 59.6 27.7
2 48.1 20.0
3 42.7 10.0
# of Courses Somewhat %
Extensive %
1 40.0 6.3
2 44.7 11.2
3 52.6 18.2
4 47.1 31.7
Part-Time Faculty Teaching Loads
Courses teaching “this term” • 1 course: 34.4%
• 2 courses: 27.3%
• 3 courses: 16.2%
• 4 or more courses: 16.3%
Teaching at multiple institutions:
• 1 institution: 59.6%
• 2 institutions: 26.3
• 3 or more institutions: 14%
12.9
17.4
40.4
29.4
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
% o
f Par
t-Tim
e Fa
culty
Advance Notice of Course Assignments
3 or More Months 1 to 3 Months 3 to 4 Weeks
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PART-TIME FACULTY: A CLOSER LOOK
Resources Available to Part-Time Faculty
17.9
48.7
37.0 33.2
12.9
76.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Use of private office
Shared office space
A personal computer
A phone/voicemail
Professional development
funds
Printer access (free printing)
% o
f Par
t-Tim
e Fa
culty
At Their Institutions, Part-Time Faculty…
30.7 38.6 34.1 44.3
22.8
65.4 40.9 28.9
34.2
7.7
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
100
Are respected by students
Are respected by full-time faculty
Rarely get hired into full-time positions
Have access to support services
Are included in faculty governance
% o
f Par
t-Tim
e Fa
culty
Agree Strongly Agree Somewhat
Data Matters The more you get to know your faculty and students, the better you can understand their needs.
• HERI/CIRP SURVEYS:
• The Faculty Survey • The Freshman Survey • Your First College Year Survey • Diverse Learning Environments Survey • College Senior Survey
@HERIUCLA FACEBOOK.COM/HERI.CIRPWWW.HERI.UCLA.EDU (310) 825-1925
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT US
Ellen Bara Stolzenberg, Ph.D., Assistant Director stolzenberg@gseis.ucla.edu
(310) 825-6991
Jennifer Berdan Lozano, Research Analyst jberdan@ucla.edu
Q&A
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