The Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility
FACULTY QUESTIONNAIRE
Fall 2008
This Faculty Questionnaire was one component of your university's application for The Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, which your institution won in 2006. The purpose of these Awards was to recognize up to five research universities for their leadership and accomplishments to date in implementing policies and practices that support career flexibility for tenured and tenure-track faculty. For more information about the Awards, please visit the American Council on Education's (ACE's) Web site at: http://www.acenet.edu/programs/Sloan
As part of winning the awards, your institution agreed to re-survey their faculty to measure changes in the knowledge and usage of flexibility policies by faculty on your campus. If you were a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in 2006, you may recall taking this questionnaire.
In this questionnaire, you will be asked about your views of and experiences with career flexibility and the extent to which your university supports your managing your career and personal/family responsibilities. It will take 20 minutes or less to complete.
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this questionnaire, “family” is defined as anyone you consider to be a family member. We also ask about “automatic stoppage of the tenure clock” for childbirth/adoption, adoption, family care, elder care or personal disability. “Automatic” means that the faculty member does not have to request or negotiate an extension of the probationary period.
INFORMED CONSENT
Completion and submission of the questionnaire will convey your informed consent.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Confidentiality will be maintained for all faculty respondents.
The survey involves a census of all tenured and tenure-track faculty at your university. To ensure confidentiality, the following steps will be taken:
Your e-mail address will be deleted from the survey management file when the data collection period is concluded.
No one at your university will have access to the response data.
Data will only be reported in the aggregate, so no one can ever be identified.
Your participation is completely voluntary. You may withdraw from this survey at any time without negative consequences or skip any questions you do not wish to answer.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PARTICIPATING
It is very important that we obtain a truly representative sample of faculty at your university, so we very much appreciate your taking the time to answer these questions.
INSTRUCTIONS
After each question, as necessary, there are instructions indicating whether you should select the one answer that best fits your situation or select all of the answers that apply.
The faculty questionnaire automatically skips respondents through the appropriate question sequences. This means that you will only view questions relevant to you based on the previous responses you selected.
Please use the [Back] and [Next] buttons at the bottom of each page to navigate the survey. Do not use the buttons in your browser's toolbar because your responses may not be recorded.
If you decide after filling out an answer that you want to change it, you can use the [Back] button to return to any page on the questionnaire and change your answer. You can then page forward using the [Next] button to where you left off.
No answers will be considered final until you submit the questionnaire. The [Submit] button appears on the last page of the questionnaire. Before you hit the final "Submit" button, a page will be generated which has a copy of your answers that you may print if you choose to.
If you are unable to complete the questionnaire because of technical problems, you may call Jean McLaughlin at 202-375-7531 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET for assistance, or e-mail her at jean_mclaughlin@ace.nche.edu.
All responses are due by December 7th, 2008
All questions in this questionnaire apply only to your experiences at the university where you currently work.
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