1996 SCHOLAR BPUND^ABLB
BYALUATLON
Please identify your status:
FACULTY:
Full Time
Part Time
Tenured
Untenured
ADMINISTRATOR: With Faculty Responsibilities
Without Faculty Responsibilities
GRADUATE STUDENT:
ABD
Other
National Latino Organization Representative
Foundation Representative
Other
In answering the questions below please keep in mind the following points:
1. The mission of MCLR is to promote the professional advancement of Latino faculty and the research of Latinos
in the Midwest.
2. The themes of the first three Roundtables have been A) Campus Environment for Faculty and the Status of
Research on Latinos in the Midwest; B) Tenure, Promotion and Affirmative Action; and C) Scholarship and
Activism.
3. Only a select number of Latino faculty from each member campus can presently participate in the Roundtable
each year.
1. What central themes would you suggest for the 1997 Scholars Roundtable?
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2. What proportion of the Roundtable should be devoted to faculty development issues?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%
3. Please check the development panels that should be repeated in future Roundtables and indicate
their frequency by using the following numbers (1. Every Roundtable; 2. Every other
Roundtable; 3. Less frequent; 4. Not at all).
a. Campus Environment for Faculty
b. Tenure and Promotion
c. Affirmative Action
d. Issues of Collaboration with National Latino Organizations
e. Presentations by Foundations on Funding Research
g. Other, (Please suggest)
4. What proportion of the Roundtable should be devoted to presentations of research by faculty?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
d. 100%
5. Check the research panel that should be repeated in future Roundtables.
a. Emerging Issues in the Disciplines
b. National Latino Organizations presentations on current issues
c. Research Panels by faculty of the member campuses
d. Other. Suggets topics or issues
6. In order to accommodate an expanded program would you favor:
a. Concurrent sessions
b. Longer program
c. Both
d. Other. Please suggest
7. How important is it to preserve the break-out sessions at the Roundtable?
8. How effective is the Roundtable format for carrying out the mission of MCLR? (Give a rating
on a scale of 1-10 and comment).
9. How useful has the Third Annual Scholars' Roundtable been to you as an individual? (Give a
rating on a scale of 1-10 and comment).
a. In raising issues of conections to the National Latino Organizations
b. Helping define the paradigms for Latino research
c. Addressing the issues of activist scholars
d. Addressing the issues of research and publication
e. Exposing you to the research of other scholars
f. In helping you to build a network with other scholars and professionals
Comments:
10. Is coming together in a large group with other Latino faculty an energizing experience worth
repeating? (Circle your answer).
YES
NO
11. What suggestions would you have for improving the Roundtable?
12.Would you like to participate in the next Roundtable? (Circle your answer). YES NO
If yes, in which capacity?
13. How important do you think an organization like MCLR is a supporting organization for
faculty in the Midwest? (Give a rating on a scale of 1-10 and comment).
14. Would you like to become an active member of MCLR?
a. Would you be willing to participate in meetings on your campus to develop an
MCLR presence?
b. Would you be willing to help organize the next Roundtable or a future Roundtable?
c. Would you be willing to be a future member of the working Board of Directors?
15. How favorable is the environment on your campus for developing faculty interest in an
organization like MCLR? (Give a rating on a scale of 1-10 and comment).
16. How can MCLR best recruit individual faculty on its member campuses and build a sense of
stake-holding among them?
17. Would the creation of an MCLR individual membership be useful in getting faculty involved?
(Circle your answer).
YES
NO
18. Should individual members be asked to pay membership dues to support the newsletter and
other activities? (Circle your answer). YES
NO
a. If yes, at what level?
19. Would it be preferable to have faculty pay a registration fee at the Roundtable rather than a
membership? (Circle your answer). YES
NO
20. How important would the following services and networking systems be to you as an
individual? (Give a rating on a scale of 1-10 and comment)
a. A semi-annual or quarterly Newsletter
b. The creation of electronic discussion groups in your discipline
c. On campus presentations by Latino faculty from your institution or other institutions?
21. Additional comments
(Optional:)
Name
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