This report analyzes existing national data sets to determine their utility in studying teaching, learning, and assessment issues as they affect postsecondary student outcomes. The analysis used Astin's Input-Environment-Outcome model to evaluate student and faculty databases that are intended to be nationally representative, are recent or…

An ongoing tension among faculty roles has generated discussions questioning the amount of teaching faculty members actually do. Before assessing this issue, it is important to investigate satisfaction levels of teaching faculty. Using the model of L. Hagedorn (2000), this study examined how personal and environmental factors combined to influence…

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that create a positive climate for diversity and to demonstrate how these factors predict outcomes related to achieving a positive campus climate for diversity. Based on survey data collected from 437 staff members employed at a large, public, predominantly White University in the Midwest, results…

This study examined the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of faculty and students about the use of nontraditional pedagogies such as active learning, collaborative/cooperative learning, and the encouragement of student participation and involvement in the learning experience. The data came from two surveys of faculty (n=136) and students (n=676)…

This longitudinal study examined changes in teaching goals over the past 2 decades. It reviewed data on trends in teaching goals obtained from national surveys of faculty conducted in 1968 by Platt, Parsons, and Kirschstein (3,045 respondents), in 1972 by the American Council on Education (42,000 respondents), in 1984 and 1989 by the Carnegie…

Data from a national survey of 9,402 women college faculty were analyzed to document the prevalence of sexual harassment among women college faculty, create a profile of women who have been harassed, examine factors leading to harassment, and explore the outcomes of harassment. Results show sexual harassment to be a complex pattern of factors,…

A study examined the nature and scope of teaching-related activities of undergraduate faculty, based on a 1992-93 national faculty survey. The research investigated faculty's professional and personal goals, principal activities and primary interests, preferences for teaching and research, expectations for students, allocation of time, teaching…

This study used data from a 1992-93 national survey of college teaching faculty (n=29,771) to examine attitudes toward institutional attempts to regulate racist and sexist on-campus speech. Most faculty supported prohibition of hate speech but were less likely to support administrators' right to ban extreme speakers. Unanticipated patterns were…

A study of 4,000 college faculty, using data from a national survey, investigated on- and off-campus sources of stress. Results indicated that while different faculty groups (male/female, tenured/nontenured, white/nonwhite) perceived varying stress levels, they also perceived different types of stress. (Author/MSE)

A study of college faculty stressors attempted to address limitations in previous research by extending the variables measured to include both on- and off-campus sources of stress and by testing the implicit assumption that all faculty perceive the same dimensions of stress, albeit at different levels. Data were drawn from a 1989-90 national…