Re: Inventory of faculty interests Dolores Brzycki 19 Apr 2007 22:04 EST

I would like to see the responses, too.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:52:20 -0500
 Robert Meyer <xxxxxx@MCCOMBS.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
> Can you share your responses, please?
>
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> I would like to develop an inventory of faculty interests.  The
>information I obtain will be used to more effectively inform the
>faculty of upcoming funding opportunities.  A cursory review of
>information available on the Internet produced minimal and
>unsatisfying results. The most common approach appears to be posting
>a survey containing open-ended, e.g., "Briefly describe your research
>interests," on a web page of the office responsible for research
>administration/sponsored programs on the institutional web site.
>
> I have a couple of concerns with this approach: 1) it would generate
>a poor response and 2) it would produce data that would not easily
>lend itself to analysis, i.e., require more time and resources than
>are available to a small Office of Sponsored Programs.
>
> I would be most grateful if anyone who has been involved in the
>successful development and use of a faculty interests inventory would
>share information about the instrument(s) and methodology they used.
>
>
> Edmund Brackett
> Director of Sponsored Programs
> Park University
> 8700 N.W. River Park Drive, Box 51
> Parkville, MO 64152-3795
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