Adjunct Poll
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Would you like to participate and vote in department meetings?
Yes (8)
53%
No (1)
7%
I already do (4)
27%
Are you crazy? No way! (2)
13%
Total votes: 15
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Would you like to participate in faculty governance?
Yes (4)
40%
No (0)
0%
If I were paid for it (2)
20%
What's faculty governance, anyway? (4)
40%
Total votes: 10
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How many years have you taught at your current college/university?
1-3 years (13)
76%
4-7 years (2)
12%
8-11 years (1)
6%
12+ years (1)
6%
Total votes: 17
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When the opportunity arises, do you mentor your students?
Yes (92)
87%
No (2)
2%
I would, but haven't had the chance yet (12)
11%
Total votes: 106
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Have you ever refused to meet with a student because you didn't get paid for holding office hours?
Yes (17)
9%
No (168)
91%
Total votes: 185
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What do you do with disruptive students?
Ignore them (2)
13%
Talk to them (13)
81%
Report them to my superior (1)
6%
Retaliate in some way (0)
0%
Not a blessed thing (0)
0%
Total votes: 16
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Have you ever bumped up a student's grade and regretted it?
Yes (21)
43%
No (13)
27%
Bump up a grade...are you crazy? (15)
31%
Total votes: 49
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If you're a Republican, who's your candidate?
Rudy Giuliani (9)
12%
Mike Huckabee (10)
13%
John McCain (32)
43%
Ron Paul (8)
11%
Mitt Romney (11)
15%
Fred Thompson (5)
7%
Total votes: 75
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If you're a Democrat, who's your candidate?
Hillary Clinton (57)
57%
John Edwards (4)
4%
Dennis Kucinich (2)
2%
Barak Obama (28)
28%
Bill Richardson (1)
1%
None of them (8)
8%
Total votes: 100
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Do you read blogs regularly?
Yes (6)
38%
No (10)
63%
What's a "blog?" (0)
0%
Total votes: 16
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Are you teaching part-time because you want to?
Yes (10)
56%
No (8)
44%
Total votes: 18
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Would you join a national adjunct faculty union?
Yes (47)
65%
No (12)
17%
I'm not sure (13)
18%
Total votes: 72
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Which do you enjoy more—teaching or scholarly research?
Teaching (39)
70%
Research (9)
16%
I can’t say—I enjoy them both equally (8)
14%
Total votes: 56
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How often do you read professional journals?
Once a year (23)
20%
Once a month (36)
32%
More than once a month (55)
48%
Total votes: 114
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Do colleges do enough to help students become employable after graduation?
Yes (7)
5%
No (86)
67%
Students should be responsible for making themselves employable (35)
27%
Total votes: 128
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Is the middle class disappearing?
Yes (79)
80%
No (16)
16%
I don’t care, because I’m not middle class (4)
4%
Total votes: 99
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As an undergraduate, how many hours a week did you spend working at a job?
< 5 (16)
19%
5-10 (15)
18%
10-20 (20)
24%
20+ (33)
39%
Total votes: 84
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How important is it to you to teach at a university with a high rank or reputation?
Not important at all (31)
34%
Somewhat important (33)
36%
Very important (22)
24%
Essential (5)
5%
Total votes: 91
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Would you prefer to teach online or face-to-face?
Online (209)
45%
Face-to-Face (119)
26%
Both (131)
28%
I'm not sure (4)
1%
Total votes: 463
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In general, do you like your students?
Yes (78)
86%
No (9)
10%
I never thought about it (4)
4%
Total votes: 91
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Should public figures with radical political or social views be barred from speaking at commencement ceremonies?
Yes (58)
23%
No (109)
43%
Only if a majority of the student body votes to bar the speaker (89)
35%
Total votes: 256
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If you could live in another time period, which would it be?
Victorian era (8)
10%
Renaissance (16)
21%
Biblical times (1)
1%
Now is fine, thank you (52)
68%
Total votes: 77
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Have you ever taken your school’s office supplies for personal use?
Yes (45)
39%
No (49)
43%
Not intentionally (21)
18%
Total votes: 115
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Is it ethical for faculty to sell extra or unused course books?
Yes (33)
40%
No (43)
52%
It might be, but I do it anyway (6)
7%
Total votes: 82
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How long does it take you to prepare for each class period you teach?
< 15 minues (32)
8%
30 minutes (74)
18%
1 hour + (294)
70%
I don't prepare (18)
4%
Total votes: 418
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Do you favor mandatory “up and out” policies for part-time faculty?
Yes (13)
13%
No (81)
80%
Only if the "out" period is more than 3 years (7)
7%
Total votes: 101
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Do you trust the federal government more or less than you did 10 years ago?
More (2)
3%
Less (56)
88%
I'm not sure (6)
9%
Total votes: 64
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How long have you been searching for full-time teaching jobs?
< 1 year (33)
27%
2-4 years (39)
32%
5+ years (31)
25%
I've given up (20)
16%
Total votes: 123
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How often do you apply for scholarly grants and awards?
Once a year (1)
3%
Once every three years (2)
6%
More than once a year (2)
6%
Never (28)
85%
Total votes: 33
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How many hours of television do you watch each week?
<5 hours (49)
42%
5-10 hours (45)
38%
10+ hours (23)
20%
Total votes: 117
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Does your spouse or partner want you to quit part-time teaching?
Yes (27)
25%
No (68)
64%
We've never discussed it (12)
11%
Total votes: 107
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How much of your total income comes from part-time teaching?
<25% (69)
35%
25-50% (37)
19%
50-75% (28)
14%
100% (63)
32%
Total votes: 197
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Should American college students be required to become fluent in a foreign language?
Yes (76)
57%
No (19)
14%
It should depend on their major (39)
29%
Total votes: 134
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Do you plan to be teaching five years from now?
Yes (294)
84%
No (13)
4%
I don't know (42)
12%
Total votes: 349
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How much do you owe in student loans?
$1,000- $5,000 (12)
8%
$5,000-$10,000 (6)
4%
$10,000+ (141)
89%
Total votes: 159
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If you could teach in any part of the U.S. where would it be?
North (10)
5%
Northeast (43)
24%
Northwest (11)
6%
South (14)
8%
Southeast (37)
20%
Southwest (21)
12%
Middle Atlantic (6)
3%
Middle West (16)
9%
West Coast (24)
13%
Total votes: 182
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Do you favor the deportation of illegal immigrants?
Yes (87)
60%
No (48)
33%
I can't decide (9)
6%
Total votes: 144
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How much money do you save each month?
< $100 (60)
44%
> $100 (19)
14%
>$200 (18)
13%
$300+ (40)
29%
Total votes: 137
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Should colleges abolish letter grades?
Yes (23)
18%
No (104)
80%
I can't decide (3)
2%
Total votes: 130
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How many hours of leisure time do you have each day?
4+ (19)
18%
2-4 (26)
25%
1/2-2 (23)
22%
Leisure time? What's that? (36)
35%
Total votes: 104
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Is it possible for professors to instill in their students values such as honesty and altruism?
Yes (262)
76%
No (63)
18%
Why bother? (20)
6%
Total votes: 345
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How often do you read a newspaper, either online or in print?
Never (8)
7%
Between 1-3 times a week (45)
37%
Every day (69)
57%
Total votes: 122
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Would you support an academic bill of rights on your campus?
Yes (43)
56%
No (13)
17%
Our faculty is already politically diverse (7)
9%
Who cares? (14)
18%
Total votes: 77
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When students don’t succeed in your class, do you consider yourself responsible?
Yes (54)
37%
No (92)
63%
Total votes: 146
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How often do you advise students outside of class?
Once a week (42)
49%
1-3 times per semester (19)
22%
Rarely (25)
29%
Total votes: 86
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Do your students ever swear in class?
Frequently (16)
9%
Sometimes (98)
57%
Never (57)
33%
Total votes: 171
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Have you ever felt physically threatened by a student?
Yes (59)
36%
No (107)
64%
Total votes: 166
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Have you ever surfed RateMyProfessors.com to see what your students are saying about you?
Yes (94)
71%
No (21)
16%
What’s RateMyProfessors.com? (17)
13%
Total votes: 132
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Do you ever have sexual fantasies about your students?
Yes (51)
35%
No (66)
46%
Never thought about it (28)
19%
Total votes: 145
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Over the last few years, has the job market in your discipline improved?
Yes (25)
23%
No (68)
62%
I don't know (16)
15%
Total votes: 109
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Do you allow your students to snack in class?
Yes (79)
73%
No (22)
20%
Only if it's something tasty and they share with me (7)
6%
Total votes: 108
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Should adjunct professors be allowed to date their students?
Yes (26)
12%
No (96)
46%
Yes, but only former students (87)
42%
Total votes: 209
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If you could earn $100,000 a year by teaching 20 courses per semester online, would you do it?
No, because the workload would overwhelm me (70)
32%
No, because my teaching would deteriorate (41)
19%
Yes (82)
38%
Maybe (24)
11%
Total votes: 217
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Do you feel that complaints against part-time faculty are handled fairly at your school(s)?
Yes, all the time (5)
6%
Most of the time (26)
30%
Sometimes (29)
33%
Never (28)
32%
Total votes: 88
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Would you risk your job to help organize an adjunct union at your school(s)?
Yes (34)
30%
No (38)
33%
Maybe, if I felt the union had a good chance of succeeding (42)
37%
Total votes: 114
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What do you do when one of your students appears to be smarter than you?
Acknowledge and develop the student’s talent (116)
70%
Become jealous and insecure (11)
7%
Nothing (13)
8%
None of my students is smarter than I am (26)
16%
Total votes: 166
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How do you view your students?
As retail consumers (27)
36%
As fledgling scholars (31)
42%
I can't decide (16)
22%
Total votes: 74
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Are you participating in Campus Equity Week activities?
Yes (3)
6%
No (10)
19%
I'm afraid to (2)
4%
What's CEW? (39)
72%
Total votes: 54
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Where do you hold office hours?
My office (48)
39%
Classroom (18)
15%
Hallway (5)
4%
Cafe (5)
4%
Other (15)
12%
I don't hold office hours (31)
25%
Total votes: 122
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How long does it take you to learn your students’ names?
One class (13)
11%
One week (35)
29%
One month (40)
33%
I hope to have it right by the final (22)
18%
I'm hopeless with names (10)
8%
Total votes: 120
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In a perfect world, when would you schedule your classes?
Morning (71)
48%
Afternoon (37)
25%
Evening (27)
18%
Late Night (5)
3%
Weekends (8)
5%
Total votes: 148
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When teaching a full class, how many students will you allow to add the course?
None (11)
15%
1-2 (20)
27%
3+ (14)
19%
My hands are tied; my school has a strict policy about this. (29)
39%
Total votes: 74
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Is anti-intellectualism on the rise in the United States?
Yes (152)
87%
No (14)
8%
I'm not sure (9)
5%
Total votes: 175
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Do you find student evaluations useful in improving your teaching?
Yes (119)
63%
No (71)
37%
Total votes: 190
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Should professors socialize with their students?
Sometimes (118)
35%
Never (61)
18%
It depends (159)
47%
Total votes: 338
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Do you feel pressured to pass students who've not earned passing grades?
Yes (95)
47%
No (104)
51%
I don't assign grades (4)
2%
Total votes: 203