2. HERI FACULTY SURVEY Surveys mailed through campus mail to all Full-Time faculty during the Spring 2005 semester A follow-up second mailing for non- respondents was conducted 4 weeks later Approximately, 50% of the Full-Time Undergraduate faculty responded.

3. DO YOU, TO A GREAT EXTENT:

4. Do you, to a great extent: engage in academic work that spans multiple disciplines?

5. Do you, to a great extent: feel that the training you received in graduate school prepared you well for your role as a faculty mentor?

6. Do you, to a great extent: achieve a healthy balance between your personal life and your professional life?

7. Do you, to a great extent: feel that your work adds meaning to your life?

8. Do you, to a great extent: consider yourself a religious person?

9. Do you, to a great extent: experience close alignment between your work and your personal values?

10. Do you, to a great extent: seek opportunities to grow spiritually?

11. Do you, to a great extent: feel that you have to work harder than your colleagues to be perceived as a legitimate scholar?

12. GOALS FOR UNDERGRADUATES NOTED AS ‘VERY IMPORTANT’ OR ‘ESSENTIAL’:

13. Prepare students for employment after college

14. Develop moral character

15. Enhance student’s knowledge of and appreciation for other racial/ethnic groups

16. Instill a basic appreciation of the liberal arts

17. Enhance spiritual Development

18. Personal goals noted as ‘very important’ ‘or essential’:

19. Becoming an authority in my field

20. Influencing the political structure

21. Being very well off financially

22. Helping to promote racial understanding

23. Integrating spirituality into my life

24. Achieving congruence between my own values and institutional values

25. AGREE ‘STRONGLY’ OR ‘SOMEWHAT’:

26. Racial and ethnic diversity should be more strongly reflected in the curriculum

27. Faculty feel that most students are well-prepared academically

28. Faculty here are strongly interested in the academic problems of undergraduates

29. Most students are strongly committed to community service

30. My research is valued by faculty in my department

31. There is adequate support for integrating technology in my teaching

33. My department has difficulty recruiting faculty

34. ISSUES YOU BELIEVE TO BE OF ‘HIGH’ OR ‘HIGHEST’ PRIORITY AT YOUR INSTITUTION:

35. To promote the intellectual development of students

36. To enhance the institution’s national image

37. To help students learn how to bring about change in American society

38. To create a diverse multi-cultural campus environment

39. ATTRIBUTES NOTED AS BEING ‘VERY DESCRIPTIVE’ OF YOUR INSTITUTION:

40. It is easy for students to see faculty outside of regular office hours

41. The faculty are typically at odds with campus administration

42. Faculty here respect each other

43. Most students are treated like ‘numbers in a book’

44. There is respect for the expression of diverse values and beliefs

45. ‘’ ASPECTS OF YOUR JOB NOTED AS ‘VERY SATISFACTORY’ OR ‘SATISFACTORY’

46. Teaching load

47. Social relationships with other faculty

48. Competency of colleagues

49. Relationship with administration

50. Factors noted as a source of stress for you during the last two years:

51. Faculty Meetings

52. Teaching Load

53. Lack of Personal Time

54. Being part of a dual career couple

55. Self-imposed high expectations

56. Agree ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’:

57. The chief benefit of a college education is that it increases one’s earning power

58. Tenure is an outmoded concept

59. Tenure is essential to attract the best minds to academe

60. Colleges should be concerned with facilitating undergraduate students’ spiritual development