Survey Results: Concerns

Survey respondents were given a list of 14 possible issues of concern for faculty teaching in small philosophy departments. They were asked to rank these issues on a scale of 1-5 where 1 indicated "no concern at all" and 5 indicated a "high priority concern" Here is the list of issues, along with the mean scores, standard deviations, and number of respondents for each item. They are listed in order from most concerning to least concerning.

For each of the concerns listed here, respondents were asked to indicate how, if at all, they had addressed these various issues. Clicking on the concern listed below will take you to a separate post that lists those responses.

Respondents were also prompted to list any other concerns that they had, and a list of these other concerns can be seen here.

	Concern	N	Mean	S.D.
1	Finding time and resources to support scholarly work	107	4.12	1.007
2	Recruiting and retaining majors	97	3.59	1.214
3	Convincing undergraduates of the value of philosophy	108	3.35	1.146
4	Excessive teaching responsibilities	108	3.25	1.382
5	Creating a sense of community among majors & minors	103	3.15	1.115
6	Acquiring resources from college administration	108	3.13	1.305
7	Effectively preparing majors for graduate school in philosophy	99	3.08	1.104
8	Excessive college service responsibilities	107	3.02	1.251
9	Convincing administration of the value of philosophy	107	3.01	1.450
10	Effectively teaching courses outside one's area of expertise	100	2.77	1.230
11	Convincing faculty colleagues of the value of philosophy	109	2.68	1.353
12	Excessive departmental service responsibilities	108	2.54	1.286
13	Finding faculty to teach philosophy courses	101	2.44	1.244
14	Managing interactions with any non-philosophers in the department	79	2.16	1.245