These are the responses to the survey sent out to all full-time SLU faculty on or about April 2, with responses collected up through April 9. The survey was sent out by the Chapter president, Steve Harris, in response to a consensus from a Chapter discussion that a need existed for a survey supplemental to that issued by the Faculty Senate Climate Committee on Mar. 26. - 1487 surveys sent out (to full-time faculty on all campuses; also to some who are full-time SLU staff but only part-time as faculty, as could be identified)
- replies from: 834, 56.1% response rate
- Questions:
- Is it time for Saint Louis University to choose a new president?
- Yes: 607, 73.3% of respondents to this question
- No: 63, 7.6% of respondents to this question
- Don't know/no opinion: 158, 19.1% of respondents to this question
- (no answer: 6, .7% of respondents to other questions)
- At which campus do you work?
- Frost/North Campus: 443, 53.8% of respondents to this question
- of those, this was response on first question:
- Yes: 389, 87.8% of those responding Frost/North Campus
- No: 9, 2.0% of those responding Frost/North Campus
- Don't know/no opinion: 44, 9.9% of those responding Frost/North Campus
- no answer: 1, .2% of those responding Frost/North Campus
- Medical/South Campus: 326, 39.6% of respondents to this question
- of those, this was response on first question:
- Yes: 193, 59.2% of those responding Medical/South Campus
- No: 49, 15.0% of those responding Medical/South Campus
- Don't know/no opinion: 83, 25.5% of those responding Medical/South Campus
- no answer: 1, .3% of those responding Medical/South Campus
- Madrid: 55, 6.7% of respondents to this question
- of those, this was response on first question:
- Yes: 25, 45.5% of those responding Madrid
- No: 4, 7.3% of those responding Madrid
- Don't know/no opinion: 26, 47.3% of those responding Madrid
- no answer: 0, 0% of those responding Madrid
- (no answer: 10, 1.2% of respondents to other questions)
- Would you like to make further comments?
- comments made by: 362, 43.4% of respondents to any questions
- It will take some time to analyze and categorize the comments.
- preliminary list of common themes in comments:
- Many years of service/accomplishments over 25 years...two-thirds of them still say it's time to go
- Bad behavior has gotten much worse over the last 5-10 years
- Time for new president is long past
- Many issues extend to the board
- Climate of fear, secrecy and autocratic rule
- Disdain of faculty and students
- Only cares about buildings
- Made administrators' lives very difficult because they also fear for jobs
- Hiring unqualified people for high level positions
- Dishonest
- Madrid a microcosm of same problems
- For those who are curious about how the Yes votes were distributed by campus, etc., I provide here that break-down; but this is of, at best, limited value, since the three campuses are of varying size.
- Yes:
- Frost/North Campus: 389, 64.1% of those responding Yes
- Medical/South campus: 193, 31.8% of those responding Yes
- Madrid: 25, 4.1% of those responding Yes
- not specified: 0, 0.0% of those responding Yes
- No:
- Frost/North Campus: 9, 14.3% of those responding No
- Medical/South campus: 49, 77.8% of those responding No
- Madrid: 4, 6.4% of those responding No
- not specified: 1, 1.6% of those responding No
- Don't know/no opinion:
- Frost/North Campus: 44, 27.9% of those responding Don't know/No opinion
- Medical/South campus: 83, 52.5% of those responding Don't know/No opinion
- Madrid: 26, 16.5% of those responding Don't know/No opinion
- not specified: 5, 3.2% of those responding Don't know/No opinion
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