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Should FT faculty earn more per course because they advise students and conduct research?
 Yes
 No
 I can't decide


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Has your department cut adjunct faculty due to the economy?
 Yes
 No


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Have you listened to an AdjunctNation Podcast Interview?
 Yes
 No
 Not yet
 Not interested in podcasts


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If you didn't apply for a scholarly grant or award last year, why not?
 I didn't qualify because I teach part-time
 I am not interested in scholarly research
 I'm not sure how to do it


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Would you like to participate and vote in department meetings?
 Yes
 No
 I already do
 Are you crazy? No way!


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Would you like to participate in faculty governance?
 Yes
 No
 If I were paid for it
 What's faculty governance, anyway?


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How many years have you taught at your current college/university?
 1-3 years
 4-7 years
 8-11 years
 12+ years


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When the opportunity arises, do you mentor your students?
 Yes
 No
 I would, but haven't had the chance yet


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Have you ever refused to meet with a student because you didn't get paid for holding office hours?
 Yes
 No


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What do you do with disruptive students?
 Ignore them
 Talk to them
 Report them to my superior
 Retaliate in some way
 Not a blessed thing


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Have you ever bumped up a student's grade and regretted it?
 Yes
 No
 Bump up a grade...are you crazy?


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If you're a Democrat, who's your candidate?
 Hillary Clinton
 John Edwards
 Dennis Kucinich
 Barak Obama
 Bill Richardson
 None of them


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Do you read blogs regularly?
 Yes
 No
 What's a "blog?"


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Are you teaching part-time because you want to?
 Yes
 No


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Would you join a national adjunct faculty union?
 Yes
 No
 I'm not sure


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Which do you enjoy more—teaching or scholarly research?
 Teaching
 Research
 I can’t say—I enjoy them both equally


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How often do you read professional journals?
 Once a year
 Once a month
 More than once a month


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Do colleges do enough to help students become employable after graduation?
 Yes
 No
  Students should be responsible for making themselves employable


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Is the middle class disappearing?
 Yes
 No
 I don’t care, because I’m not middle class


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As an undergraduate, how many hours a week did you spend working at a job?
 < 5
 5-10
 10-20
 20+


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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
 Somewhat important
 Very important
 Essential


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Would you prefer to teach online or face-to-face?
 Online
 Face-to-Face
 Both
 I'm not sure


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In general, do you like your students?
 Yes
 No
 I never thought about it


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Should public figures with radical political or social views be barred from speaking at commencement ceremonies?
 Yes
 No
 Only if a majority of the student body votes to bar the speaker


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If you could live in another time period, which would it be?
 Victorian era
 Renaissance
 Biblical times
 Now is fine, thank you


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Have you ever taken your school’s office supplies for personal use?
 Yes
 No
 Not intentionally


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Is it ethical for faculty to sell extra or unused course books?
 Yes
 No
 It might be, but I do it anyway


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How long does it take you to prepare for each class period you teach?
 < 15 minues
 30 minutes
 1 hour +
 I don't prepare


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Do you favor mandatory “up and out” policies for part-time faculty?
 Yes
 No
 Only if the "out" period is more than 3 years


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Do you trust the federal government more or less than you did 10 years ago?
 More
 Less
 I'm not sure


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How long have you been searching for full-time teaching jobs?
 < 1 year
 2-4 years
 5+ years
 I've given up


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How often do you apply for scholarly grants and awards?
 Once a year
 Once every three years
 More than once a year
 Never


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How many hours of television do you watch each week?
 <5 hours
 5-10 hours
 10+ hours


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Does your spouse or partner want you to quit part-time teaching?
 Yes
 No
 We've never discussed it


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How much of your total income comes from part-time teaching?
 <25%
 25-50%
 50-75%
 100%


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Should American college students be required to become fluent in a foreign language?
 Yes
 No
 It should depend on their major


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Do you plan to be teaching five years from now?
 Yes
 No
 I don't know


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How much do you owe in student loans?
 $1,000- $5,000
 $5,000-$10,000
 $10,000+


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If you could teach in any part of the U.S. where would it be?
 North
 Northeast
 Northwest
 South
 Southeast
 Southwest
 Middle Atlantic
 Middle West
 West Coast


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Do you favor the deportation of illegal immigrants?
 Yes
 No
 I can't decide


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How much money do you save each month?
 < $100
 > $100
 >$200
 $300+


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Should colleges abolish letter grades?
 Yes
 No
 I can't decide


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How many hours of leisure time do you have each day?
 4+
 2-4
 1/2-2
 Leisure time? What's that?


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Is it possible for professors to instill in their students values such as honesty and altruism?
 Yes
 No
 Why bother?


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How often do you read a newspaper, either online or in print?
 Never
 Between 1-3 times a week
 Every day


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Would you support an academic bill of rights on your campus?
 Yes
 No
 Our faculty is already politically diverse
 Who cares?


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When students don’t succeed in your class, do you consider yourself responsible?
 Yes
 No


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How often do you advise students outside of class?
 Once a week
 1-3 times per semester
 Rarely


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Do your students ever swear in class?
 Frequently
 Sometimes
 Never


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Have you ever felt physically threatened by a student?
 Yes
 No


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Have you ever surfed RateMyProfessors.com to see what your students are saying about you?
 Yes
 No
 What’s RateMyProfessors.com?


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Do you ever have sexual fantasies about your students?
 Yes
 No
 Never thought about it


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Over the last few years, has the job market in your discipline improved?
 Yes
 No
 I don't know


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Do you allow your students to snack in class?
 Yes
 No
 Only if it's something tasty and they share with me


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Should adjunct professors be allowed to date their students?
 Yes
 No
 Yes, but only former students


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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
 No, because my teaching would deteriorate
 Yes
 Maybe


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Do you feel that complaints against part-time faculty are handled fairly at your school(s)?
 Yes, all the time
 Most of the time
 Sometimes
 Never


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Would you risk your job to help organize an adjunct union at your school(s)?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe, if I felt the union had a good chance of succeeding


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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
 Become jealous and insecure
 Nothing
 None of my students is smarter than I am


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How do you view your students?
 As retail consumers
 As fledgling scholars
 I can't decide


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Are you participating in Campus Equity Week activities?
 Yes
 No
 I'm afraid to
 What's CEW?


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Where do you hold office hours?
 My office
 Classroom
 Hallway
 Cafe
 Other
 I don't hold office hours


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How long does it take you to learn your students’ names?
 One class
 One week
 One month
 I hope to have it right by the final
 I'm hopeless with names


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In a perfect world, when would you schedule your classes?
 Morning
 Afternoon
 Evening
 Late Night
 Weekends


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When teaching a full class, how many students will you allow to add the course?
 None
 1-2
 3+
 My hands are tied; my school has a strict policy about this.


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Is anti-intellectualism on the rise in the United States?
 Yes
 No
 I'm not sure


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Do you find student evaluations useful in improving your teaching?
 Yes
 No


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Should professors socialize with their students?
 Sometimes
 Never
 It depends


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Do you feel pressured to pass students who've not earned passing grades?
 Yes
 No
 I don't assign grades


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Should colleges stop using "legacy" status as a criterion in admissions?
 yes
 no
 I can't decide


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If you could change one thing about your job what would it be?
 Rate of pay
 Work hours
 Better office
 Shorter commute
 Different courses
 I wouldn't change a thing


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Will you attend an academic conference this year?
 Yes
 No
 Undecided


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Which is your most important teaching tool?
 Textbook
 Lecture notes
 Computer
 Chalkboard
 Coursepack


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Do you teach...
 On campus
 Online
 Both
 I don't teach


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Where do you teach?
 Mid Atlantic
 Midwest
 Northeast
 Northwest
 South
 Southeast
 Southwest
 West
 Canada
 Europe
 Asia
 Other


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Do you enjoy teaching?
 Yes
 No
 I can't decide


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On average, how long does it take you to returned graded assignments?
 < 1 week
 1-2 weeks
 >2 weeks


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How long do you spend on-line each day?
 < 1 hour
 1-2 hours
 3-4 hours
 5+ hours


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Has the quality of students:
 Improved since you began teaching?
 Stayed the same?
 Diminished?


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How many academic conferences will you attend this year?
 None
 1-3
 4-6
 7+


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Would you describe yourself as a religious person?
 Yes
 No
 I don't know


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As a faculty member, are you obligated to help students pass?
 Yes
 No
 Can't decide


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If the full-time faculty at your college walked out on strike, would you cross their picket line?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe
 I can't decide


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Do you ever get first day jitters when you teach?
 Yes
 No


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Who's most pampered on campus nowadays?
 Administrators
 F/T Faculty
 P/T Faculty
 Students
 Alumni
 Can't decide


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Should professors keep their religious beliefs to themselves in the classroom?
 Yes
 No
 I can't decide


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If you had it to do all over again, would you go to graduate school and on into teaching?
 yes
 no
 I can't decide


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How would you classify yourself?
 politically liberal
 politically moderate
 politically conservative
 apolitical


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Would you choose a "teaching track" over a "tenure track" job, if given a choice?
 yes
 no
 I'm not sure


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Should professors keep their political opinions to themselves in the classroom?
 yes
 no


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Do the F/T faculty in your department treat you collegially?
 Always
 Sometimes
 Never
 I don't teach on campus


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Have you ever inflated your resume/CV to land a teaching job?
 yes
 no


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At which kind of college do you teach?
 nonprofit
 for profit
 both


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Do you have a Web page for your course(s)?
 yes
 no
 I plan to soon


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If you could do away with student evals. would you?
 yes
 no


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How many years have you taught as a temporary faculty member?
 1-3
 4-7
 8-11
 12-15
 16-19
 20+


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How do you commute to work?
 Car
 Bus
 Train/Tram
 Subway
 Bike
 Walk
 I don't commute


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On average, how many textbooks will you adopt for your courses this Fall?
 1-3
 4-7
 8+


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Do you really care if your students cheat/plagiarize?
 Yes
 No
 Can't decide


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What are you doing this summer?
 Teaching
 Working at a non-teaching job
 Vacationing
 Conducting research
 I am unemployed


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Has the economy significantly impacted your teaching job?
 yes
 no


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Have you ever been pressured into changing a grade by either a student or administrator?
 Yes
 No
 I don't give grades


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When was the last time you had a raise in your per course pay?
 This year
 2001-2002
 1999-2000
 1996-1998
 1993-1995
 never


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Should race be a factor in college admissions?
 yes
 no


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Have you ever retaliated against a student by giving a low grade?
 yes
 no


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In general, do you feel college students:
 Thoroughly respect faculty
 Have some respect for faculty
 Have little respect for faculty
 Have no respect for faculty


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Do you deliberately hide the fact you are an adjunct from your students?
 yes
 no


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Did you ever cheat on an exam when you were in college?
 yes
 no


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What kind of a grader are you?
 very hard
 hard
 medium
 easy
 very easy


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What percentage of your students this semester are prepared to do college-level coursework?
 80-100%
 60-80%
 40-60%
 20-40%
 under 20%
 none


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How often do you overhaul your lecture notes?
 Every semester
 Every 1-2 years
 Every 3-4 years
 Every 5-6 years
 I never change my lectures notes
 I don't use lecture notes


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When do you usually begin to prepare for your Fall courses?
 July
 August
 September
 I don't prepare until classes begin


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Should access to a college education be a right or a privilege?
 It should be a right
 It should be a privilege


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What do you like best about college teaching?
 Prestige
 Pay
 Intellectual stimulation
 Flexible work schedule


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Should adjunct faculty be required to hold terminal degrees in exchange for pro-rata pay?
 yes
 no


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Faculty who plagiarize should be:
 dismissed
 suspended
 reprimanded
 fined
 no punishment


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Have you ever inflated grades to get better teaching evaluations?
 yes
 no


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Do you conduct research and/or publish in your field?
 yes
 no


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Should adjuncts serve on hiring committees for full-time faculty?
 yes
 no
 I don't care


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Do you select textbooks for your students?
 yes
 no
 I don't use textbooks in my course


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Does your college provide you with healthcare benefits?
 yes
 no


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Do you teach part-time because you want to?
 yes
 no


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How much do you earn per course?
 Less than $1,000
 $1,000-$2,000
 $2,001-$3,000
 More than $3,000


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How many classes do you currently teach?
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6+


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How many academic conferences will you attend this year?
 None
 1-3
 4-6
 7+


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