Overview:The survey is offered by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) and includes a special emphasis on faculty-student interaction, undergraduate teaching, and curricular issues. Other items focus on faculty's use of PC/Internet technology and current issues of interest, such as diversity and civic engagement. Norms are statistically adjusted to represent the nation?s total population of full-time undergraduate faculty and permits comparison based on type of institution, control (public, private, etc.), and selectivity. Since 1989, over 300,000 faculty at more than 1,100 two-year and four-year colleges nationwide have participated and results are reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Use at WC: Faculty at Westminster College have participated on a six-year cycle in 1989, 1995, and 2001.