Adjunct Poll
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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 (13)
38%
I am not interested in scholarly research (3)
9%
I'm not sure how to do it (18)
53%
Total votes: 34
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Would you like to participate and vote in department meetings?
Yes (30)
64%
No (5)
11%
I already do (9)
19%
Are you crazy? No way! (3)
6%
Total votes: 47
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Would you like to participate in faculty governance?
Yes (13)
43%
No (1)
3%
If I were paid for it (8)
27%
What's faculty governance, anyway? (8)
27%
Total votes: 30
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How many years have you taught at your current college/university?
1-3 years (24)
51%
4-7 years (8)
17%
8-11 years (9)
19%
12+ years (6)
13%
Total votes: 47
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When the opportunity arises, do you mentor your students?
Yes (118)
86%
No (5)
4%
I would, but haven't had the chance yet (15)
11%
Total votes: 138
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Have you ever refused to meet with a student because you didn't get paid for holding office hours?
Yes (23)
10%
No (203)
90%
Total votes: 226
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What do you do with disruptive students?
Ignore them (7)
18%
Talk to them (29)
74%
Report them to my superior (1)
3%
Retaliate in some way (2)
5%
Not a blessed thing (0)
0%
Total votes: 39
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Have you ever bumped up a student's grade and regretted it?
Yes (34)
51%
No (18)
27%
Bump up a grade...are you crazy? (15)
22%
Total votes: 67
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If you're a Democrat, who's your candidate?
Hillary Clinton (65)
52%
John Edwards (5)
4%
Dennis Kucinich (2)
2%
Barak Obama (40)
32%
Bill Richardson (1)
1%
None of them (11)
9%
Total votes: 124
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Do you read blogs regularly?
Yes (9)
33%
No (17)
63%
What's a "blog?" (1)
4%
Total votes: 27
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Are you teaching part-time because you want to?
Yes (26)
55%
No (21)
45%
Total votes: 47
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Would you join a national adjunct faculty union?
Yes (69)
70%
No (14)
14%
I'm not sure (15)
15%
Total votes: 98
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Which do you enjoy more—teaching or scholarly research?
Teaching (60)
64%
Research (14)
15%
I can’t say—I enjoy them both equally (20)
21%
Total votes: 94
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How often do you read professional journals?
Once a year (26)
20%
Once a month (42)
32%
More than once a month (62)
48%
Total votes: 130
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Do colleges do enough to help students become employable after graduation?
Yes (7)
5%
No (92)
68%
Students should be responsible for making themselves employable (37)
27%
Total votes: 136
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Is the middle class disappearing?
Yes (90)
80%
No (17)
15%
I don’t care, because I’m not middle class (5)
4%
Total votes: 112
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As an undergraduate, how many hours a week did you spend working at a job?
< 5 (18)
19%
5-10 (16)
17%
10-20 (24)
25%
20+ (37)
39%
Total votes: 95
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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 (35)
33%
Somewhat important (41)
39%
Very important (25)
24%
Essential (5)
5%
Total votes: 106
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Would you prefer to teach online or face-to-face?
Online (222)
45%
Face-to-Face (126)
26%
Both (141)
29%
I'm not sure (5)
1%
Total votes: 494
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In general, do you like your students?
Yes (96)
87%
No (10)
9%
I never thought about it (4)
4%
Total votes: 110
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Should public figures with radical political or social views be barred from speaking at commencement ceremonies?
Yes (62)
23%
No (114)
43%
Only if a majority of the student body votes to bar the speaker (90)
34%
Total votes: 266
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If you could live in another time period, which would it be?
Victorian era (11)
12%
Renaissance (17)
19%
Biblical times (1)
1%
Now is fine, thank you (61)
68%
Total votes: 90
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Have you ever taken your school’s office supplies for personal use?
Yes (48)
39%
No (54)
44%
Not intentionally (22)
18%
Total votes: 124
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Is it ethical for faculty to sell extra or unused course books?
Yes (40)
41%
No (52)
53%
It might be, but I do it anyway (6)
6%
Total votes: 98
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How long does it take you to prepare for each class period you teach?
< 15 minues (35)
8%
30 minutes (75)
17%
1 hour + (304)
70%
I don't prepare (19)
4%
Total votes: 433
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Do you favor mandatory “up and out” policies for part-time faculty?
Yes (35)
12%
No (227)
79%
Only if the "out" period is more than 3 years (24)
8%
Total votes: 286
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Do you trust the federal government more or less than you did 10 years ago?
More (3)
4%
Less (68)
87%
I'm not sure (7)
9%
Total votes: 78
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How long have you been searching for full-time teaching jobs?
< 1 year (38)
27%
2-4 years (43)
30%
5+ years (38)
27%
I've given up (23)
16%
Total votes: 142
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How often do you apply for scholarly grants and awards?
Once a year (5)
11%
Once every three years (3)
7%
More than once a year (3)
7%
Never (35)
76%
Total votes: 46
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How many hours of television do you watch each week?
<5 hours (56)
42%
5-10 hours (50)
38%
10+ hours (27)
20%
Total votes: 133
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Does your spouse or partner want you to quit part-time teaching?
Yes (31)
26%
No (75)
63%
We've never discussed it (13)
11%
Total votes: 119
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How much of your total income comes from part-time teaching?
<25% (74)
34%
25-50% (39)
18%
50-75% (29)
13%
100% (73)
34%
Total votes: 215
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Should American college students be required to become fluent in a foreign language?
Yes (85)
57%
No (21)
14%
It should depend on their major (43)
29%
Total votes: 149
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Do you plan to be teaching five years from now?
Yes (332)
84%
No (15)
4%
I don't know (46)
12%
Total votes: 393
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How much do you owe in student loans?
$1,000- $5,000 (12)
7%
$5,000-$10,000 (6)
4%
$10,000+ (152)
89%
Total votes: 170
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If you could teach in any part of the U.S. where would it be?
North (11)
5%
Northeast (52)
25%
Northwest (14)
7%
South (15)
7%
Southeast (42)
20%
Southwest (21)
10%
Middle Atlantic (7)
3%
Middle West (17)
8%
West Coast (28)
14%
Total votes: 207
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Do you favor the deportation of illegal immigrants?
Yes (94)
61%
No (50)
32%
I can't decide (10)
6%
Total votes: 154
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How much money do you save each month?
< $100 (69)
45%
> $100 (21)
14%
>$200 (19)
12%
$300+ (45)
29%
Total votes: 154
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Should colleges abolish letter grades?
Yes (28)
20%
No (110)
78%
I can't decide (3)
2%
Total votes: 141
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How many hours of leisure time do you have each day?
4+ (21)
18%
2-4 (29)
25%
1/2-2 (24)
21%
Leisure time? What's that? (41)
36%
Total votes: 115
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Is it possible for professors to instill in their students values such as honesty and altruism?
Yes (283)
77%
No (65)
18%
Why bother? (21)
6%
Total votes: 369
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How often do you read a newspaper, either online or in print?
Never (10)
8%
Between 1-3 times a week (49)
37%
Every day (74)
56%
Total votes: 133
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Would you support an academic bill of rights on your campus?
Yes (46)
57%
No (14)
17%
Our faculty is already politically diverse (7)
9%
Who cares? (14)
17%
Total votes: 81
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When students don’t succeed in your class, do you consider yourself responsible?
Yes (55)
35%
No (103)
65%
Total votes: 158
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How often do you advise students outside of class?
Once a week (47)
46%
1-3 times per semester (24)
23%
Rarely (32)
31%
Total votes: 103
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Do your students ever swear in class?
Frequently (18)
10%
Sometimes (105)
57%
Never (60)
33%
Total votes: 183
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Have you ever felt physically threatened by a student?
Yes (63)
36%
No (111)
64%
Total votes: 174
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Have you ever surfed RateMyProfessors.com to see what your students are saying about you?
Yes (107)
71%
No (25)
17%
What’s RateMyProfessors.com? (19)
13%
Total votes: 151
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Do you ever have sexual fantasies about your students?
Yes (55)
34%
No (79)
49%
Never thought about it (28)
17%
Total votes: 162
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Over the last few years, has the job market in your discipline improved?
Yes (28)
22%
No (76)
61%
I don't know (21)
17%
Total votes: 125
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Do you allow your students to snack in class?
Yes (90)
75%
No (23)
19%
Only if it's something tasty and they share with me (7)
6%
Total votes: 120
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Should adjunct professors be allowed to date their students?
Yes (33)
14%
No (105)
46%
Yes, but only former students (91)
40%
Total votes: 229
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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 (82)
33%
No, because my teaching would deteriorate (48)
19%
Yes (92)
37%
Maybe (27)
11%
Total votes: 249
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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)
5%
Most of the time (26)
27%
Sometimes (34)
35%
Never (31)
32%
Total votes: 96
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Would you risk your job to help organize an adjunct union at your school(s)?
Yes (41)
32%
No (42)
33%
Maybe, if I felt the union had a good chance of succeeding (45)
35%
Total votes: 128
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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 (128)
71%
Become jealous and insecure (11)
6%
Nothing (15)
8%
None of my students is smarter than I am (27)
15%
Total votes: 181
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How do you view your students?
As retail consumers (30)
37%
As fledgling scholars (35)
43%
I can't decide (17)
21%
Total votes: 82
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Are you participating in Campus Equity Week activities?
Yes (3)
5%
No (12)
20%
I'm afraid to (2)
3%
What's CEW? (42)
71%
Total votes: 59
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Where do you hold office hours?
My office (49)
37%
Classroom (21)
16%
Hallway (6)
4%
Cafe (6)
4%
Other (16)
12%
I don't hold office hours (36)
27%
Total votes: 134
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How long does it take you to learn your students’ names?
One class (14)
10%
One week (40)
29%
One month (46)
33%
I hope to have it right by the final (26)
19%
I'm hopeless with names (13)
9%
Total votes: 139
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In a perfect world, when would you schedule your classes?
Morning (80)
49%
Afternoon (40)
24%
Evening (30)
18%
Late Night (5)
3%
Weekends (9)
5%
Total votes: 164
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When teaching a full class, how many students will you allow to add the course?
None (13)
15%
1-2 (21)
25%
3+ (18)
21%
My hands are tied; my school has a strict policy about this. (33)
39%
Total votes: 85
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Is anti-intellectualism on the rise in the United States?
Yes (164)
88%
No (14)
7%
I'm not sure (9)
5%
Total votes: 187
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Do you find student evaluations useful in improving your teaching?
Yes (124)
61%
No (78)
39%
Total votes: 202
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Should professors socialize with their students?
Sometimes (127)
36%
Never (63)
18%
It depends (164)
46%
Total votes: 354
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Do you feel pressured to pass students who've not earned passing grades?
Yes (104)
46%
No (116)
52%
I don't assign grades (4)
2%
Total votes: 224