On most questions, responses of SAU faculty are similar to those of faculty across the country. There is substantial divergence on some issues. Among the largest differences between SAU and U.S. faculty are those related to perceptions of students' academic abilities. Generally, SAU faculty express as much satisfaction as U.S. faculty with various aspects of their jobs. There appear to be some noteworthy opinion differences between SAU male and female faculty.
Female faculty find most job conditions as satisfactory as their male colleagues do.
SAU POLLs are made possible through the Curtistine A. Walz Center which provides space and computing facilities for quantitative analysis by students and faculty in the Department of History, Political Science, and Geography. The Walz Center is funded by a generous bequest from the estate of Mrs. Curtistine A. Walz, wife of Dr. Robert B. Walz, long-time professor of history at the University, who is now also deceased. SAU POLLs , like all surveys, should be treated with caution since there are several possible sources of bias or error other than the often-mentioned margin of error. Among those sources, for example, are wording of questions and mistakes in coding answers. Moreover, polls do little more than take a snapshot of opinions at one point in time, and they may elicit opinions where none were present before questions are asked.