This report summarizes the highlights of a national survey of college and university faculty conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) at UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) in the 2010–11 academic year. In terms of faculty norms, the report discusses:

  • Top Sources of Stress among Faculty
  • Student-centered Pedagogical Practices
  • Declines in Time Spent Teaching
  • Part-Time Faculty: A Growing Phenomenon
  • Training the Next Generation of Faculty