Advantages

Survey respondents were given a list of potential advantages to working in a small philosophy department. They were asked to rank these issues on a scale of 1-5 where 1 meant "I don't like this at all" and 5 meant "I love this" Here is the list of potential advantages, along with the mean scores, standard deviations, and number of respondents for each item. They are listed in order from most loved to those seen as least advantageous.

Respondents were also prompted to list any other advantages they enjoyed as members of small philosophy departments, and those other advantages can be seen here.

	Advantage	N	Mean	S.D.
1	Having the freedom to create new courses	92	4.26	0.982
2	Knowing the Majors and Minors well	92	4.23	0.891
3	Having the same students in multiple courses	92	3.99	0.989
4	Having the ability to teach a wide range of courses	97	3.93	1.092
5	Having the ability to effect change in one's department	93	3.71	1.079
6	Having fewer departmental administrative obligations	61	3.43	1.087
7	Interactions with non-philosophers in the institution	99	3.41	0.904
8	Interactions with fellow philosophers	78	3.33	1.181
9	Being a/the prominent "campus philosopher"	90	3.06	1.193
10	Having the opportunity to teach non-philosophy courses	72	2.97	1.267
11	Interactions with non-philosophers in the department	64	2.94	1.037
12	Having a small number of philosophy majors.	92	2.53	1.296