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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 (6)
46%
I am not interested in scholarly research (1)
8%
I'm not sure how to do it (6)
46%
Total votes: 13
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Would you like to participate and vote in department meetings?
Yes (14)
58%
No (1)
4%
I already do (6)
25%
Are you crazy? No way! (3)
13%
Total votes: 24
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Would you like to participate in faculty governance?
Yes (8)
53%
No (0)
0%
If I were paid for it (3)
20%
What's faculty governance, anyway? (4)
27%
Total votes: 15
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How many years have you taught at your current college/university?
1-3 years (15)
63%
4-7 years (3)
13%
8-11 years (3)
13%
12+ years (3)
13%
Total votes: 24
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When the opportunity arises, do you mentor your students?
Yes (95)
86%
No (3)
3%
I would, but haven't had the chance yet (12)
11%
Total votes: 110
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Have you ever refused to meet with a student because you didn't get paid for holding office hours?
Yes (21)
11%
No (176)
89%
Total votes: 197
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What do you do with disruptive students?
Ignore them (2)
11%
Talk to them (15)
79%
Report them to my superior (1)
5%
Retaliate in some way (1)
5%
Not a blessed thing (0)
0%
Total votes: 19
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Have you ever bumped up a student's grade and regretted it?
Yes (27)
47%
No (15)
26%
Bump up a grade...are you crazy? (15)
26%
Total votes: 57
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If you're a Democrat, who's your candidate?
Hillary Clinton (60)
55%
John Edwards (4)
4%
Dennis Kucinich (2)
2%
Barak Obama (34)
31%
Bill Richardson (1)
1%
None of them (9)
8%
Total votes: 110
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Do you read blogs regularly?
Yes (6)
35%
No (11)
65%
What's a "blog?" (0)
0%
Total votes: 17
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Are you teaching part-time because you want to?
Yes (11)
50%
No (11)
50%
Total votes: 22
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Would you join a national adjunct faculty union?
Yes (54)
67%
No (13)
16%
I'm not sure (14)
17%
Total votes: 81
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Which do you enjoy more—teaching or scholarly research?
Teaching (43)
67%
Research (10)
16%
I can’t say—I enjoy them both equally (11)
17%
Total votes: 64
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How often do you read professional journals?
Once a year (23)
20%
Once a month (38)
33%
More than once a month (55)
47%
Total votes: 116
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Do colleges do enough to help students become employable after graduation?
Yes (7)
5%
No (88)
68%
Students should be responsible for making themselves employable (35)
27%
Total votes: 130
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Is the middle class disappearing?
Yes (84)
80%
No (16)
15%
I don’t care, because I’m not middle class (5)
5%
Total votes: 105
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As an undergraduate, how many hours a week did you spend working at a job?
< 5 (16)
18%
5-10 (15)
17%
10-20 (20)
23%
20+ (36)
41%
Total votes: 87
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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)
33%
Somewhat important (36)
38%
Very important (23)
24%
Essential (5)
5%
Total votes: 95
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Would you prefer to teach online or face-to-face?
Online (213)
45%
Face-to-Face (121)
26%
Both (131)
28%
I'm not sure (5)
1%
Total votes: 470
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In general, do you like your students?
Yes (82)
85%
No (10)
10%
I never thought about it (4)
4%
Total votes: 96
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Should public figures with radical political or social views be barred from speaking at commencement ceremonies?
Yes (59)
23%
No (110)
42%
Only if a majority of the student body votes to bar the speaker (90)
35%
Total votes: 259
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If you could live in another time period, which would it be?
Victorian era (8)
10%
Renaissance (16)
20%
Biblical times (1)
1%
Now is fine, thank you (55)
69%
Total votes: 80
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Have you ever taken your school’s office supplies for personal use?
Yes (46)
39%
No (50)
43%
Not intentionally (21)
18%
Total votes: 117
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Is it ethical for faculty to sell extra or unused course books?
Yes (35)
40%
No (46)
53%
It might be, but I do it anyway (6)
7%
Total votes: 87
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How long does it take you to prepare for each class period you teach?
< 15 minues (32)
8%
30 minutes (75)
18%
1 hour + (296)
70%
I don't prepare (18)
4%
Total votes: 421
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Do you favor mandatory “up and out” policies for part-time faculty?
Yes (13)
13%
No (82)
80%
Only if the "out" period is more than 3 years (7)
7%
Total votes: 102
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Do you trust the federal government more or less than you did 10 years ago?
More (2)
3%
Less (59)
88%
I'm not sure (6)
9%
Total votes: 67
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How long have you been searching for full-time teaching jobs?
< 1 year (33)
26%
2-4 years (41)
32%
5+ years (31)
24%
I've given up (22)
17%
Total votes: 127
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How often do you apply for scholarly grants and awards?
Once a year (1)
3%
Once every three years (3)
9%
More than once a year (2)
6%
Never (29)
83%
Total votes: 35
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How many hours of television do you watch each week?
<5 hours (50)
41%
5-10 hours (47)
39%
10+ hours (24)
20%
Total votes: 121
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Does your spouse or partner want you to quit part-time teaching?
Yes (29)
26%
No (70)
63%
We've never discussed it (13)
12%
Total votes: 112
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How much of your total income comes from part-time teaching?
<25% (70)
34%
25-50% (38)
19%
50-75% (28)
14%
100% (68)
33%
Total votes: 204
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Should American college students be required to become fluent in a foreign language?
Yes (80)
58%
No (19)
14%
It should depend on their major (40)
29%
Total votes: 139
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Do you plan to be teaching five years from now?
Yes (316)
84%
No (14)
4%
I don't know (44)
12%
Total votes: 374
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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+ (145)
89%
Total votes: 163
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If you could teach in any part of the U.S. where would it be?
North (10)
5%
Northeast (47)
24%
Northwest (13)
7%
South (15)
8%
Southeast (37)
19%
Southwest (21)
11%
Middle Atlantic (6)
3%
Middle West (17)
9%
West Coast (26)
14%
Total votes: 192
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Do you favor the deportation of illegal immigrants?
Yes (87)
60%
No (49)
34%
I can't decide (9)
6%
Total votes: 145
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How much money do you save each month?
< $100 (64)
45%
> $100 (20)
14%
>$200 (18)
13%
$300+ (41)
29%
Total votes: 143
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Should colleges abolish letter grades?
Yes (23)
18%
No (105)
80%
I can't decide (3)
2%
Total votes: 131
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How many hours of leisure time do you have each day?
4+ (20)
19%
2-4 (28)
26%
1/2-2 (23)
21%
Leisure time? What's that? (37)
34%
Total votes: 108
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Is it possible for professors to instill in their students values such as honesty and altruism?
Yes (267)
76%
No (64)
18%
Why bother? (21)
6%
Total votes: 352
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How often do you read a newspaper, either online or in print?
Never (8)
6%
Between 1-3 times a week (46)
37%
Every day (70)
56%
Total votes: 124
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Would you support an academic bill of rights on your campus?
Yes (45)
57%
No (13)
16%
Our faculty is already politically diverse (7)
9%
Who cares? (14)
18%
Total votes: 79
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When students don’t succeed in your class, do you consider yourself responsible?
Yes (54)
36%
No (96)
64%
Total votes: 150
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How often do you advise students outside of class?
Once a week (44)
48%
1-3 times per semester (20)
22%
Rarely (28)
30%
Total votes: 92
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Do your students ever swear in class?
Frequently (16)
9%
Sometimes (101)
58%
Never (57)
33%
Total votes: 174
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Have you ever felt physically threatened by a student?
Yes (61)
36%
No (108)
64%
Total votes: 169
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Have you ever surfed RateMyProfessors.com to see what your students are saying about you?
Yes (98)
71%
No (22)
16%
What’s RateMyProfessors.com? (18)
13%
Total votes: 138
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Do you ever have sexual fantasies about your students?
Yes (51)
34%
No (71)
47%
Never thought about it (28)
19%
Total votes: 150
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Over the last few years, has the job market in your discipline improved?
Yes (27)
24%
No (71)
62%
I don't know (16)
14%
Total votes: 114
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Do you allow your students to snack in class?
Yes (82)
74%
No (22)
20%
Only if it's something tasty and they share with me (7)
6%
Total votes: 111
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Should adjunct professors be allowed to date their students?
Yes (27)
13%
No (98)
46%
Yes, but only former students (88)
41%
Total votes: 213
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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 (74)
32%
No, because my teaching would deteriorate (46)
20%
Yes (85)
37%
Maybe (25)
11%
Total votes: 230
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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)
29%
Sometimes (29)
33%
Never (29)
33%
Total votes: 89
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Would you risk your job to help organize an adjunct union at your school(s)?
Yes (36)
31%
No (39)
33%
Maybe, if I felt the union had a good chance of succeeding (43)
36%
Total votes: 118
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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 (117)
70%
Become jealous and insecure (11)
7%
Nothing (14)
8%
None of my students is smarter than I am (26)
15%
Total votes: 168
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How do you view your students?
As retail consumers (28)
36%
As fledgling scholars (33)
43%
I can't decide (16)
21%
Total votes: 77
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Are you participating in Campus Equity Week activities?
Yes (3)
5%
No (11)
20%
I'm afraid to (2)
4%
What's CEW? (40)
71%
Total votes: 56
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Where do you hold office hours?
My office (48)
39%
Classroom (19)
15%
Hallway (5)
4%
Cafe (5)
4%
Other (15)
12%
I don't hold office hours (32)
26%
Total votes: 124
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How long does it take you to learn your students’ names?
One class (13)
10%
One week (35)
28%
One month (44)
35%
I hope to have it right by the final (23)
18%
I'm hopeless with names (10)
8%
Total votes: 125
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In a perfect world, when would you schedule your classes?
Morning (72)
48%
Afternoon (38)
25%
Evening (27)
18%
Late Night (5)
3%
Weekends (9)
6%
Total votes: 151
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When teaching a full class, how many students will you allow to add the course?
None (11)
14%
1-2 (20)
26%
3+ (16)
21%
My hands are tied; my school has a strict policy about this. (31)
40%
Total votes: 78
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Is anti-intellectualism on the rise in the United States?
Yes (156)
87%
No (14)
8%
I'm not sure (9)
5%
Total votes: 179
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Do you find student evaluations useful in improving your teaching?
Yes (119)
62%
No (74)
38%
Total votes: 193
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Should professors socialize with their students?
Sometimes (120)
35%
Never (62)
18%
It depends (160)
47%
Total votes: 342
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Do you feel pressured to pass students who've not earned passing grades?
Yes (99)
47%
No (106)
51%
I don't assign grades (4)
2%
Total votes: 209