Full-time Faculty This survey had 63 questions specific to our experience at BMCC and

our departments.

There were 10 categories of questions:1) Your Campus and Department2) Facilities, Programs, and Resources3) Services, Functions, and Grant Support*4) Elements of Job Satisfaction5) Satisfaction with College Culture+6) Attitudes toward CUNY-Wide initiatives7) Opinions about New CUNY Initiatives: In Principle and

Implementation at Your College*8) Department or Program Decision-Making*9) Recruiting for Diversity and Climate for women Faculty and Faculty

of Color10) Satisfaction with Your CUNY Career and its Progression

*The categories with which people were most satisfied+The category with the worst rating of satisfaction

Rating The questionnaire used a 5-point Likert scale The response rate for full-time faculty was

37.1% (152/410), a statistically significant number. The UFS summary data calculated the number and percentages of 4 and 5-rated responses (positively rated), then compared those answers across campuses.

Of the 63 questions, we ranked lower than the CUNY average on all but seven questions.

There are 24 items that we rated at least 10% lower than the CUNY average.

Full-time Faculty Like ….

Bathrooms Bookstore Help with grants Department help with improving

our teaching Department taking steps to

enhance the climate for faculty of color

Writing across the curriculum initiative

Online courses

Full-time Faculty Are Most Dissatisfied With…… Class size (-29.3%) Faculty influence on hiring new faculty (-25.4%) Office space (-23.4%) Off-campus access to your campus e-mail (-22.7%) Availability of sabbaticals (-22.6%) Level of respect shown to faculty by college

Provost/Chief Academic Officer (-20.9%) Support by administration for faculty decision on

academic integrity (cheating, plagiarism, and grades) (-20.8%)

Administrative support for free expression of ideas (-18.7%)

Tech support for computer-related activities (-18.1%) Your workload (-16.2%)

Part-time Faculty

169/835 response rate (20.2%)

Twenty-nine items, four categories:Selected work conditionsFacilities, Programs, and ResourcesServices, Functions, and Grant SupportElements of Job Satisfaction

20/29 items rated lower than the CUNY average. 

Eight were rated at least 10% worse than the CUNY average.

Part-timers Like ….

Bathrooms Photocopying Security Availability of small grants Health care benefits

What Part-timers Don’t Like …. Receive schedule for next term in prior term (-22.1%) Office Space (-15.3%) Tech support for computer-related activities (-13.5%) Library holdings: printed books and journals (-12.9%) Library holdings: electronic resources (-12.1%) Off-campus access to your campus email (-11.6%) Your authority to set standards and grading policies

(-10%) Class size (-14.2%)

The Committee Recommends…. The committee recommends that we

initially focus our efforts on understanding the most critical category: Satisfaction with College Culture, the lowest rated category. Fully 9/10 items in this category had satisfaction rates at least 10% worse than the rest of CUNY.

Satisfaction with College Culture Category The category consisted of the following items: Faculty influence on college policies (-11.9%) Faculty influence on the direction and development of curriculum

(-11.9%) Faculty influence on hiring new faculty (-25.4%) Faculty influence on hiring top level administrators (-12.6%) Support by administration for faculty decisions on academic

integrity (cheating, plagiarism) (-20.8%) Level of respect shown to faculty by college President (-12.4%) Level of respect shown to faculty by college Provost/Chief

Academic Officer (-20.9%) Administrative support for intellectual life (-16.0%) Administrative support for free expression of ideas (-18.7%) Transparency of budget allocations (lines and other fund) within

the college (-3.9%)

Committee Members

Sarah Salm Anne Friedman Hollis Glaser Owen Meyers Joyce Moorman Lisa Rose