Campus Climate survey deadline extended to Nov. 10
November 2, 2017
The deadline to complete the survey for Loyola’s Campus Climate Assessment has been extended to Nov. 10. The previous deadline to complete the survey had been Friday (Nov. 3).
Liv Newman, co-chairwoman of the survey, said that the move is to give more time to reach a 30 percent participation rate by the student body – a number she calls statistically critical.
“The campus climate assessment committee is well aware of the importance that this data will be to create real and lasting change at Loyola. We want to provide every opportunity for students to voice their experiences, ideas, hopes, and concerns,” Newman said in an email.
Campus climate refers to “the current attitudes, behaviors, standards and practices of employees and students of an institution,” according to Susan Rankin of Rankin & Associates Consulting. Rankin & Associates is the outside firm conducting the survey.
Students can complete the survey here.
George Johnson • Nov 3, 2017 at 9:14 pm
This plan is nothing short of getting more work out of the teaching faculty without compensation. It is another step toward the overall reduction in quality of teaching with the use of less experienced adjuncts. It doesn’t afford the students an appropriate amount of time to be introduced to curriculum, digest and discriminate the information and apply it thoughtfully. If this is the future of instruction at the institution just cut to the chase, go for profit, reduce all the degree plans to the minimum requirements, cut all the programs that round out the student experience like theatre, music, writing etc…
As a former interim professor I left because although there were two vacant and one soon to be vacant tenure positions in the department qualified applicants were only offered extraordinary faculty position which are basically adjunct positions in all but name. Without a strong cadre of tenured faculty paradigms get watered down, there is no process for non tenure faculty to have real input on programs, paradigms and most importantly budget.
Loyola is like a farmer, tilling less soil, selling off land, livestock and equipment and hoping for a bumper crop.
Sad state of affairs, like the College of Santa Fe and Colorado Heights University.