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Survey of policies affecting tenured and tenure-track faculty

Survey of policies affecting tenured and tenure-track faculty. Administered by Appalachian State University’s Faculty Senate, March, 2011. Preliminary data results, April 2011. Demographics of respondents. 378 faculty (50.5% response rate) College of respondents: 43.8% CAS 11.5% COB

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Survey of policies affecting tenured and tenure-track faculty

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  1. Survey of policies affecting tenured and tenure-track faculty Administered by Appalachian State University’s Faculty Senate, March, 2011. Preliminary data results, April 2011.

  2. Demographics of respondents • 378 faculty (50.5% response rate) • College of respondents: 43.8% CAS 11.5% COB 13.4% COE 8.2% COHS 13.4% FAA 4.1% MUS 4.4% LIB 1.1% UC • Rank of respondents: 36% Assistant professor 24.5% Associate professor 39.5% Full professor

  3. How do faculty identify?

  4. Do you support the idea of a differential approach to tenure-track workload? • To be elected/assigned after tenure • 3/2 with high research productivity • 3/3 with moderate research productivity • 4/3 with little research productivity

  5. 77.9% Support or strongly support 10.4% Neutral 9.9%Oppose or strongly oppose 1.9% Other

  6. Current Faculty Handbook language for appointment to Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor

  7. 73% support or strongly support 11% neutral 15% oppose or strongly oppose 1.1% other

  8. 69.1% support or strongly support 10.9 neutral 19.2 opposed or strongly oppose 0.8% other

  9. 59.8% support or strongly support 13.3 neutral 25.5% oppose or strongly oppose 1.3 other

  10. Promotion to Full: 28.0% said no letters 10.1% said one letter 30.2% said two 25.8% said three 5.2% said four Tenure and Promotion to Associate: 38.2% said no letters 15.7% said one letter 26.6% said two 16.5% said three 3.0% said four Should external letters of recommendation be required for promotion and tenure?

  11. Should the university institute college-level rank and tenure committees? • Each college would have its own committee • Each department would elect a representative and alternate • Promotion and tenure applications would go to this committee after the DPC and department chair but before the college dean • The college-level committee would NOT start from scratch in evaluating the dossier • The college-level committee would make sure that the department’s stated processes and requirements were met.

  12. 40.3% support or strongly support 39.1% oppose or strongly oppose

  13. If we had college rank and tenure committees, who should be eligible to be elected to serve on them? 12.9% responded: Only tenured faculty at the rank of Full 52.8% responded: All tenured faculty 21.0% responded: All tenured and tenure-track faculty

  14. Stay tuned for more…. We will continue to process the data in order to find out how survey responses broke down by rank and college.

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