1. What are the things about your job that give you satisfaction?

  2. What things are dissatisfying?

  3. What are the key areas in your job over which you feel you have control?

  4. In what areas do you feel you have little or no control?

  5. Do you wish you had more control in any of these areas?

  6. How well does you job allow you to balance your professional and personal life?

  7. How much do you feel your opinions and views matter to others in the college? 

    1. Colleagues
    2. Chairs
    3. Dean
    4. Other administrators

  1. What word or phrase would you use to describe the governance model in our college? 

  2. How well do you feel you understand governance at the college level?

  3. How do you think decisions are made about important issues in the college?

  4. What are those issues?

  5. How do you think decisions are made about: 

    1. Academic issues, such as our curriculum, majors, educational policy, admissions, minority recruitment, retention and mentoring, career resources?
    2. Faculty quality of life issues, such as hiring, rewards, recruitment, tenure and promotion,  faculty rights?
    3. College planning issues, such as budgeting and resource allocation, establishing college-wide priorities, adding or removing programs?
    4. Research and scholarship issues, including policies to support research, research personnel, indirect cost distribution of grants, etc.
    5. Academic infrastructure and support issues, such as classroom technology, facility use, space allocation, equipment and technology

  6. What, for you, are the pros and cons of our present system of governance?

  7. What would be your ideal governance approach for our college? 

  8. What does shared governance mean to you?

  9. Do you see any benefits for you personally in a system of shared governance?

  10. What are your biggest concerns about shared governance?

  11. How optimistic are you that the college can and will move toward a system of shared governance?  Explain?

  12. What advice would you offer to our committee as it sets about its work? 

  13. How can we keep you better informed and involved in our work? 

  14. What do you think should be our priorities?

  15. Are there any other issues that you would like to talk about?