Faculty Senate Survey

11/7/2008

1. How committed are you to adopting/adhering to the teacher scholar model in your own professional performance?

Not committed at all

Marginally committed

Generally committed

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2. Should your FTE score be used as a factor in determining your overall productivity at the university during the annual performance evaluation?

No

Not sure

Yes

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3. Should Norfolk State University adhere to the SCHEV FTE numbers based on course level and field of expertise or the numbers currently used (which require a higher FTE average per class)?

No

Not sure

Yes

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4. Do you believe there is an inverse relationship between the FTE score and your scholarly productivity score?

No

Not sure

Yes

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5. Has your department or school adopted a commitment to the teacher-scholar model?

Has no intention of pursuing this model

Will in the future

No

Yes

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6. Has your department or school established a written guideline for tenure and promotion?

Has not discussed the creation of a guideline

Is currently developing guideline

No

Yes

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7. Has your department or school established a written guideline for evaluation standards?

Has not discussed the creation of written

standards

Is currently developing guideline

No

Yes

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8. Has your department adopted a 3-3 schedule for tenured and tenure-track faculty engaged in scholarly research?

Has no intention of pursuing this schedule

Will in the future

Yes

No

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9. Has your department been supported by the dean in its plans to implement a 3-3 schedule?

Has indicated no plans to do so

Will in the future

Yes

No

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10. How well-staffed is your department with tenured and tenure-track faculty?

Severely lacking in positions

Marginally staffed

Well-staffed

Very well-staffed

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11. What is your position on outside employment for faculty?

Satisfied with guidelines already outlined in Faculty Handbook

Need stricter guidelines

Unfavorable

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12. How important is a 3-year pre-tenure review for

faculty?

Should not be imposed

Marginally important

Extremely important

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13. Do you support a stricter post-tenure review process?

Must be imposed equally across the

board

No

Yes

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14. What is your stance on multi-year faculty positions?

A and B

Should be allowed to continue as is

Should have more variations (research or , clinical, or

teaching) but limited to a 1-2 year renewable contract

Should be minimized with more emphasis on tenure-track

positions

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15. How important is it to have more than one name forwarded to a Dean as a possible candidate for selection of department chair.

Only the person obtaining a majority should be forwarded.

Not important

Somewhat important

Very important

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16. If more than one name is submitted to the Dean for the position of Department Chair

None of the above. The two names garnering the

most votes should be forwarded even if they do not have the support of a

majority of the voting members of the department

facultyAll names submitted must have

the approval of a majority of the voting faculty in the

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17. Faculty members should have representation on the calendar committee and one of the members should be a faculty senate representative

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Agree

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18. Faculty should not be required to attend any functions not on the calendar

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Agree

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19.How can the University improve its image? (open-ended question)

20. How can the University resolve the salary issue (imbalance in salaries compared with productivity, rank, credentials, faculty versus administrator, and seniority)? (open-ended question)