Comparisons Among Groups

Staff and administrators had the highest level of concern with ensuring adequate salaries for all employees, but this was clearly a high priority for all groups participating in the survey (Table 2-5).

Staff showed the highest level of concern with rewarding good performance, while the other groups were somewhat less concerned (Table 2-6).

Administrators and T/TT faculty put attracting faculty and staff to CSULB as a high priority, whereas staff and lecturer faculty were somewhat less likely to do so (Table 2-7). This probably reflects the responsibility of administrators and T/TT faculty to participate intensively in recruiting and hiring.

Lecturer faculty were the most concerned about supporting instruction, followed by T/TT faculty and administrators; staff were less concerned (Table 2-8). This may signal a need to make support of instruction a higher priority among staff, or a need to show staff how their duties directly or indirectly support instruction.

Staff and administrators are the most concerned with retaining staff and faculty (Table 2-9). Staff may feel the strain when other staff members are not retained, and administrators may feel the strain when faculty are not retained.

T/TT faculty were the most concerned about managing the workload as a priority issue (Table 2-10). This may reflect a number of new policies and initiatives that have been initiated in the last several years that attract T/TT faculty but not lecturer faculty.

Both T/TT faculty and lecturer faculty placed a higher priority on support for scholarly and creative activities than did staff or administrators (Table 2-11). These types of activities are central to how faculty are evaluated, but less so in the case of the other two groups.