TO: J. Jennings

Chair, Committee on the Administrative Survey

J. Walker

Chair-Designate, Nominating Committee

R. Evans

Presiding Officer-Designate, Council of Faculty Delegates

FROM: J. Wermuth

Secretary, Council of Faculty Delegates

DATE: April 29, 1997

RE: 1997-98 Administrative Survey

The 1997-98 Administrative Survey was distributed with the support of the Secretary of the Council of Faculty Delegates, and with clerical support provided by the Office of the Chancellor.

The following information should bear on the future of the survey, if not the Committee on the Administrative Survey itself:

Number of Survey forms distributed: 259

Number of survey envelopes returned to this office by deadline: 36

Per cent return:

Per cent scan sheets fully or partially completed and returned:

Per cent comment sheets returned with comments:

Cost per response (of 36) based on paper and labor costs:

It is clear that the survey is not adding value to the Purdue University calumet system of faculty governance system which instituted and backs the evaluation effort, nor meeting the needs of the faculty as a vehicle for grading certain administrative incumbents, nor adding value to the performances of the incumbents themselves which I believe was one of its intents.

I strongly urge the members of the committee to meet with the leadership of the Council to determine what steps should next be taken. It is is no one’s interest to expend the time, effort, energy, and other resources with so little return. The cost-benefit ratio of the exercise is extremely tilted to cost.