This report is designed to provide an overview of responses to the survey questions, as well as to examine response differences by school, rank, gender, and race/ethnicity. Future reports will include multivariate analyses of many questions, including how gender, school, and rank each uniquely help to explain responses. For several survey items, Purdue responses will also be compared with responses from faculty at other institutions. These and many other analyses are very important for understanding the meaning and significance of the findings, but current limitations in terms of time and resources require that they be planned for future reports.

• It is not our intent to translate this first report into actionable recommendations. Rather, our goal is to present the results and allow individuals and groups at the unit, school, and campus levels to determine how the results should best be used.

• The means and distributions for each of the survey questions are available at the following URL: ../index.htm

• Throughout the report, Health Science, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences are discussed in the aggregate because the sample size was not large enough to analyze by individual unit. They are referred to collectively as “Health Sciences.”

• Throughout the report, responses from schools singled out for comment were generally at least ten percentage points above or below the mean.

• Due to the small number of African American, American Indian, and Hispanic respondents (N = 24), they are grouped together into a category called “underrepresented minorities” throughout this report.

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