The study showed that the faculty support UALR s mission and that they believe their units are organized and administered in such a way as to advance the University mission. As a part of the study, academic and non-academic unit heads participated in interviews of one another, and demonstrated a great degree of understanding of the interdependence among quite different units. UALR participated in the national study coordinated by the Center for Instructional Development at Syracuse University to measure the value faculty and administrators placed on undergraduate teaching and research. UALR s faculty revealed its commitment to teaching in this survey. The survey also revealed that faculty believe their departmental promotion and tenure documents do not reflect the value faculty give to teaching.
Faculty believe research is given too high a value.
The same discontent with promotion and tenure documents has been revealed in other campus data-gathering exercises. This is a significant change from 10 years ago when only 25 percent of the administrators were women. Minority representation within this group remains 14 percent. The number of women employees increased from 351 to 446, and the number of minorities increased from 143 to 215 in the last decade. Chapter 5 provides further information on UALR s grant initiatives.