2. 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 Department 2) Facilities, Programs, and Resources 3) Services, Functions, and Grant Support* 4) Elements of Job Satisfaction 5) Satisfaction with College Culture+ 6) Attitudes toward CUNY-Wide initiatives 7) 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 Color 10) Satisfaction with Your CUNY Career and its Progression *The categories with which people were most satisfied +The category with the worst rating of satisfaction

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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%)

6. Part-time Faculty  169/835 response rate (20.2%)  Twenty-nine items, four categories: Selected work conditions Facilities, Programs, and Resources Services, Functions, and Grant Support Elements of Job Satisfaction  20/29 items rated lower than the CUNY average.  Eight were rated at least 10% worse than the CUNY average.

7. Part-timers Like ….  Bathrooms  Photocopying  Security  Availability of small grants  Health care benefits

8. 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%)

9. 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.

10. 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%)

11. Committee Members  Sarah Salm  Anne Friedman  Hollis Glaser  Owen Meyers  Joyce Moorman  Lisa Rose