The University is wasting the energy and skills of their faculty by drowning us in secretarial and clerical work that could and should be provided at a fraction of our salaries. Our departmental staff's morale is at an alltime low, for good reason. However, with respect to the absolute level of satisfaction with resources for research and scholarship, it is the faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who feel most hampered by insufficient resources. They are simply the reports of how adequate people believe their research support structure is for doing work right now. Table 4 maps the specific resources found most inadequate, with a separate column for each of the six academic clusters.
Several results are apparent from the table.
First, storage space is the leading problem for faculty in all six clusters. Also, secretarial support is felt to be seriously inadequate in all clusters except for the Medical cluster and even there it is still second to storage space. Finally, it is clear that faculty in Humanities and Arts fields have more serious resource inadequacy than other faculty. Even in areas that most UC faculty take for granted, such as telephones and personal computers, arts and humanities faculty lack basic support. I spend my own money on postage, telephone, FAX machine, software, because these things, once provided, no longer exist.