UNF Faculty Association

Information Item # 5: Submitted by Dr. Judith Miller, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment


Special Report from Dr. Judith Miller, Executive Director of Assessment (j.miller@unf.edu)

1. IDEA Evaluations of Administrators:Please complete evaluations of the provost, your dean, and (in some departments) your chair, thoughtfully and constructively!

All full time faculty (except visitors) will get an email invitation, sent from The IDEA Center, to evaluate the provost, their dean, and in some cases their chairs. Online process is managed by The IDEA Center at Kansas State University (www.theideacenter.org). Email invitations and reminders will begin Wed 2/1 and end on Wed 2/15.

Common faculty concerns: Anonymity of responses (guaranteed by both the forms and the process).
A sample provost and dean evaluation form is at http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/AdminSurveySample.pdf. Demographic information is optional. A sample report of the kind that will be provided to the provost and your dean is at http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/AdminSam_0.pdf. Demographic info is used in a very general way. No subgroup summaries are reported for fewer than 5 respondents. A sample chair evaluation form is at http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/ChairSurveySample.pdf. No demographic information is requested. A sample report of the kind that will be provided to the provost and your dean is at http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/ChairReportSample.pdf. No results are reported if the number of respondents is fewer than 5. The IDEA Center confidentiality policy is at http://www.theideacenter.org/our-services/feedback-administrators/00528-statement-confidentiality-idea-feedback-administrators.

Confusion about how many surveyseach faculty member is supposed to complete (two or three).
All full time faculty (except visitors) evaluate the provost. All full time faculty (except visitors) get a separate invitation to evaluate their dean. SOME departments get an invitation to evaluate their chair (four year cycle).

2. National Survey of Student Engagement goes “live” on Feb. 8. Please encourage your freshmen and seniors to complete the survey!
Suggested script to read in class or to post as an announcement on your course Blackboard site:
“Starting on February 8, UNF freshmen and seniors will receive email invitations to complete the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). NSSE provides UNF with valuable first-hand information that will help us improve our curriculum and campus life. You can make a difference to the future of UNF by completing the survey. For more information, please go to http://www.unf.edu/nsse/.”
A discussion of UNF’s administration of NSSE, with links to 2009 results, is at http://www.unf.edu/nsse/. Results are reported on UNF’s College Portrait (http://www.collegeportraits.org/FL/UNF). Sample survey is at http://nsse.iub.edu/pdf/survey_instruments/2011/NSSE2011_US_English_Paper.pdf.