DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39221.v1
title: Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey, United States, 2024
title: Version 1

description: The first cycle of the 2024 US Instructor Survey queried a random sample of faculty members and instructors in the United States to gain a better understanding of their attitudes, perceptions, and practices regarding teaching, learning, and instructional support at their respective campuses. This survey is a renewed adaptation of Ithaka S+R's triennial US Faculty Survey, fielded since 2000, with a special focus on instruction, diverse teaching, and learning modalities.
description: The population for this survey is faculty members and instructors at four-year colleges and universities that offer a bachelor's degree or higher.
description: Respondents were asked questions about professional responsibilities, teaching practices, perspectives on instructional support, the role of the academic library, and open educational resources (OER). Additionally, respondents were randomly assigned a block of questions on one of two thematic areas-one on faculty use and perceptions of generative AI in instruction and the other on academic freedom and censorship. Demographic variables included a respondent's age, gender, title or role, primary academic field, institution's Carnegie classification, number of years in their field, number of years at their college or university, the types of courses they have taught in the span of the last two years (a lower division undergraduate course, an upper division undergraduate course, and/or a graduate level course), and whether the respondent primarily identifies as a researcher, teacher, or somewhere in between.
description: The variable <strong>KEYCODE</strong> corresponds with the following weight information, which is not present in the data. No further information was provided.
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description: Response Rates: The survey was fielded in Spring 2024 (Feb-March 2024) to a sample of 135,384 faculty members and instructors, and received a total of 5,259 completed surveys for an overall response rate of 3.9%.
description: Invitation emails and reminder messages were distributed from Ithaka S+R via Qualtrics and several partner scholarly societies. As the responses varied by discipline, variables were weighted to the aggregated results proportionally to match population parameters.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey, United States, 2024
description: This survey study covers instruction and teaching at four-year colleges and universities in the United States, covering disciplines such as the major arts, sciences, social sciences, and other major professional fields.
description: web-based surveyWeight variables are mentioned in the metadata, but are not present in the data. No further information was provided.For additional information, please refer to the Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey website.