Understanding student and faculty life /
Leonard Baird and Rodney T. Hartnett
- FIRST EDITION
- San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, c1980
- xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Importance of surveying student and faculty views -- 2. Developing information systems about student activities and opinions -- 3. Academic diversity among campus groups -- 4. Evaluating the faculty's sociopsychological environments -- 5. Collecting and applying social and economic information -- 6. Utilizing interinstitutional data to evaluate educational policy -- 7. Anticipating problems in undertaking campus studies and implementing results -- 8. Using campus surveys for improving -- 9. Directory of leading instruments for assessing campus environments.
This book is about a relatively new kind of information that can help administrators, professors, and students make better choices, act more effectively, and evaluate the success of their activities more accurately.