Measure Overview
To assess the tenure process/status of faculty appointees.
Measure Information
- Question
- Target Population
- NIH DPC Hallmark
- Key Citations
- Instructions
- Validity Evidence and Other Information
Prompts:
1. In what year did you receive your first appointment?
(Can use short answer or drop down response options here)
2. In what year were you first appointed at this institution?
(Can use short answer or drop down response options here)
3. What is your present academic rank?
- Professor (1)
- Associate Professor (2)
- Assistant Professor (3)
- Lecturer (4)
- Instructor (5)
- Graduate student/Teaching Assistant (6)
4. What is your tenure status at this institution?
- Tenured (1)
- On tenure track but not tenured (2)
- Not on tenure track, but institution has tenure system (3)
- Institution has no tenure system (4)
If tenured (nested item) 4a. In what year did you receive tenure at this institution?
(Can use short answer or drop down response options here)
- Faculty/Mentor
FAC-13
- Stolzenberg, E. B., Eagan, M. K., Zimmerman, H. B., Berdan Lozano, J., Cesar-Davis, N. M., Aragon, M. C., & Rios-Aguilar, C. (2019). Undergraduate teaching faculty: The HERI Faculty Survey 2016–2017. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA. http://heri.ucla.edu/monographs/HERI-FAC2017-monograph-expanded.pdf
N/A
Description from HERI 2016-2017 survey: “The 2016 – 2017 questionnaire was based largely on items used in the nine previous faculty surveys, which were revised following the suggestion of HERI-affiliated researchers actively studying faculty concerns and topics related teaching and learning. In addition to collecting demographic information, the web-based questionnaire focuses on topics such as how faculty spend their time, how they interact with students, their preferred methods of teaching, their perceptions of institutional climate, their primary sources of stress and satisfaction, and their personal and professional goals.”
Note that in HERI surveys, the question reads slightly different to say: In what year did you receive your first academic appointment? For more information on HERI survey measures, their current use, and administering the survey on your campus, please visit https://heri.ucla.edu