At the end of spring
semester this year, the Michigan Tech Chapter of the AAUP, functioning as an
advocate for Michigan Tech faculty, sent a survey to all tenured and
tenure-track faculty asking which issues it was important to have detailed and
accurate information on, and asking whether faculty would be willing to
participate in tracking those issues. With 66 surveys returned, the response
rate was approximately 24 percent.
Overall, respondents found all the issues important to a high degree, and 26 percent (17 respondents) declared themselves willing to work on tracking the most important issues. Plans to follow up on these issues will be discussed at the chapter meeting on September 24, 4-5 pm, 101 Chemistry Science building.
On a scale from 1 being not important to 5 being very important, five issues averaged over 4:
4.5 University finances
4.5 Administration
adherence to tenure & promotion procedures
4.5 Fringe benefits
4.3 Salary allocation
and distribution
4.1 Administration
management and support for research
The remaining five issues averaged over 3:
3.9 Reorganization of academic units
3.8 Administrator,
faculty, and staff searches and appointments
3.8 Initiatives like the
sustainable futures hiring initiative
3.5 Michigan budget
process for allocations to higher education
3.3 Recruitment of
students
