TOTAL: 16

A. General Information

1.What is the number of majors in your program?    Result

2.How many semester student credit hours does your program produce?    Result

3. What is the annual operating budget of your program (excluding externally funded research)?    Result

4. What is the current level of externally funded research funding(estimated 2001 expenditures)?    Result

5.How much total space do you have?    Result

6.What College was your department in before the separation? (select one)
  [2]  Engineering
  [4]  Sciences
  [1]  Business
  Other

7.Person to whom your unit now reports: (select one)
  [0]  President/Chancellor
  [12]  Provost or Vice Chancellor/Vice President for Academic Affairs
  [3]  Dean
  Other

8.Present Academic Unit: (select one)
  [6]  College
  [4]  School
  [1]  Program
  [1]  Department
  Other

9. In what year did the separation occur ?   Result

10. Subject areas covered by academic program (check all terms that apply)
  [10]  Artificial intelligence
  [13]  Computer Science
  [4]  Computer Engineering
  [9]  Computing
  [1]  Engineering
  [6]  Information
  [6]  Informatics
  [4]  Information Sciences
  [9]  Information Systems
  [11]  Information Technology
  [2]  Library Science
  [12]  Software engineering
  [9]  Telecommunications
  Other terms included (please separate terms with semicolon):

11. Actual name of program   Result

B. Prior status within university

1.Person to whom your unit formerly reported: (select one)
  [0]  President/Chancellor
  [1]  Provost or Vice Chancellor/Vice President for Academic Affairs
  [11]  Dean
  Other

2.Before the separation, how would you compare your department with other departments within the College in terms of credit-hour production:
  [4]  Well above average
  [4]  Above average
  [3]  Average
  [1]  Below average
  [1]   Well below average

3.Before the separation, how would you compare your department with other departments within the College in terms of the number of majors:
  [5]   Well above average
  [5]  Above average
  [0]  Average
  [1]  Below average
  [2]  Well below average

4.Before the separation, how would you compare your department with other departments within the College in terms of the student:faculty ratio?
  [6]  Well above average
  [1]  Above average
  [4]  Average
  [1]  Below average
  [1]  Well below average

5.Before the separation, how would you characterize the College's overall assessment of computing faculty research?
  [1]  Well respected
  [2]  Respected
  [3]  On a par with the other departments within the College
  [6]  Poorly regarded

6.Before the separation, how would you characterize the College's evaluation process of computing faculty for promotion and tenure?
  [3]  Very Fair
  [9]  Fair
  [1]  Unfair

7.Before the separation, how would you characterize the College's understanding of the nature of computing publication vehicles?
  [0]   Well understood
  [6]  Partially understood
  [6]  Poorly understood

8.Before the separation, how would you characterize the College's understanding of the role of theory, experiment and practice in computer science?
  [1]  Well understood
  [6]  Partially understood
  [6]  Poorly understood

C Motivation for forming a separate unit

1. Why was a separate college/school necessary/desirable in the case of your institution? (rate according to degree of importance to your program. 1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

b."overblown department phenomenon" - size dwarfed sister departments without commensurate increase of influence/resources
  [5]  1   [3]  2   [5]  3   (1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

c."turfing" - more established departments refused to relinquish resources even when justified by economic reality
  [3]  1   [3]  2   [7]  3   (1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

d."zero-summing problem" - needed re-allocation of resources politically infeasible
  [3]  1   [3]  2   [7]  3   (1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

e."mission breadth" - unit had broader mission than peer departments than supervising unit could accommodate, and difficulty in migrating to interdisciplinary focus
  [2]  1   [0]  2   [11]  3   (1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

f.   Other (please separate entries with a semicolon)

2.Check any of the following views that were present in your college prior to the separation:
  [6]  Computing is diluted math/science/engineering
  [6]  Computing is a tool for science/engineering, not a discipline unto itself
  [3]  Computing is a "support service" not an academic discipline
  [4]  Computing is little more than end-user computing

D. Administrative information:

1. Current salary of Dean/Director    Result
2. a. Total office staff FTE    Result
    b. Average salary of office staff    Result
3. a. Total system administrator FTE    Result
    b. Average salary of system administrator    Result