This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey, part of the Cooperative
Institutional Research Program, which examined college faculty demographic and
biographic information, how faculty members spend their time, how they interact with
students, their preferred methods of teaching and examining students, their perceptions of
the institutional climate, their primary sources of stress and satisfaction, and community
service. The survey obtained responses from 59,933 faculty members at 384 institutions of …

This report presents results of the fourth triennial national survey of college and university
faculty conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute in the fall and winter of 1998-
99. Results are based on responses of 33,785 full-time faculty at 378 institutions (two-year
colleges, four-year colleges, and universities). Data are reported separately for men and
women and for 12 different institutional groupings, stratified for institutional control (public,
private, nonsectarian, Catholic, Protestant) and type (university, four-year college, two-year …

This report summarizes the highlights and presents statistical data (two-thirds of the report)
from a national survey of 35,478 full-time college and university faculty members at 392 two-
year colleges, four-year colleges and universities, carried out in the fall and winter of 1989-
90. The 200-question survey focused heavily on how faculty members spend their time, how
they interact with students, their preferred methods of teaching and examining students, their
perceptions of the institutional climate, and their primary sources of stress and satisfaction …