Faculty Climate Survey 2013

Gesemia Nelson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Methodology

Survey of Entire Faculty of MSU Denver776 Affiliate Faculty Members538 Full-Time Faculty Members

Spring 2013 – 2nd wave of study that began in 2010

Response RateAffiliate Faculty = 32.7%Full-Time Faculty = 60.4%

Leadership is Effective

Support for University Initiatives in the Abstract

Satisfaction with Implementation of University

Initiatives

Retention, Tenure, and Promotion (RTP)

Expectations for Performance are Reasonable

Resources Used in Three Areas of Assessment

Satisfaction with Resources

Satisfaction with Technological Resources

Satisfaction with Forms of Compensation

Perceptions of Work Environment

Campus is Friendly Towards…

Experienced Discrimination because of…

Overall Satisfaction with…

DemographicsRank

Generally speaking, higher ranked faculty members were more likely to express dissatisfaction than lower ranked faculty members

Tenure StatusGenerally speaking, tenured faculty were less likely

to be satisfied than non-tenured faculty

SchoolFaculty members in the School of Business tended to

be the most satisfied while faculty members in LAS tended to be least satisfied

DemographicsGender

In many instance, gender was not statistically significant

Where it was significant, men tended to express stronger views than women about a given topic

Race/EthnicityRace/Ethnicity was not statistically significant for

many variablesWhere significant, Non-White faculty tended to be

less satisfied than White faculty

Sexual OrientationSexual orientation was not statistically significant in

the majority of cases