2024 HERI Faculty Survey

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's continued efforts to better understand and support our campus community, Chancellor Corey King has asked the Chancellor's Committee on Inclusive Excellence to administer two surveys to UW-Whitewater employees in Spring 2024. Faculty and instructional staff will be invited to share their experiences through the HERI Faculty Survey.

Developed by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) out of the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) Faculty Survey has been designed to provide institutions with information pertaining to the faculty experience. According to the HERI website: “[The survey] includes topics such as pedagogical practices, faculty goals and expectations for students, research and service activities, sources of stress and satisfaction, and the connection between learning in the classroom and practices in the local and global community.” HERI provides participant institutions with comprehensive information about the faculty experience at their institutions. This information can be used to identify and address issues that may contribute to student success. 

Faculty and instructional staff who were employed in instructional positions on either campus in the Fall 2023 semester at UW-Whitewater will receive a personalized invitation to participate in the survey on 16 January 2024. The survey, which takes approximately 25 - 30 minutes to complete, is comprised of a core set of ~35 substantive questions, an additional subset of 4 questions on campus climate, and a set of 5 questions developed by the Chancellor's Committee on Inclusive Excellence specifically on the UW-Whitewater experience. The survey will remain open until 12 February 2024.

Participation in this survey is completely voluntary. The survey will be administered by CIRP, which is required to keep all responses to the survey confidential.  Data collected by CIRP will only be reported to UW-Whitewater administration in the aggregate. For specific information how participants will be treated, what they can expect should they choose to participate and their rights to withdraw from the survey, please read the HERI Faculty Survey Informed Consent Agreement.

In order to encourage participation in this important survey, UW-Whitewater is providing incentives for employees who choose to complete the survey. Those who complete the survey are automatically eligible to be chosen to receive:

• one of five iPads
• one of two campus parking passes, or
• one of two opportunities to have lunch with Chancellor King.

Winners will be randomly selected by the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning (IRAP) and notified by email. If you have any questions about UW-Whitewater’s participation in this survey, please contact the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment & Planning at 262-472-5671 or irp@uww.edu.

UW-Whitewater faculty last participated in the HERI Faculty Survey in Spring 2017. For more information on the results of the 2017 HERI Faculty Survey, please visit the HERI Faculty Survey webpage.