A. General Information

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

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

(for the following two questions, please enter dollar amounts as integers( e.g.. 1400350 rather than $1,400,350))

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

4. What is the current level of externally funded research funding (estimated 2002 expenditures)?
$

5. How much total space do you have? (Ft.²)

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

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

8. Present Academic Unit: (select one)
College
School
Program
Other

9. In what year did the separation occur ?

10. Subject areas covered by academic program (check all terms that apply)
Artificial intelligence
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Computing
Engineering
Information
Informatics
Information Sciences
Information Systems
Information Technology
Library Science
Software engineering
Telecommunications
Information & Computer Sciences
Electronic Commerce
Educational Technology
Other terms included (please separate terms with semicolon):

11. Actual title of program

12. What percentage of faculty have courtesy appointments with other academic units? \%

13. What percentage of faculty have line-item joint appointments with other academic units? \%

14. With what other academic units do you share faculty? ( please separate terms with semicolon )

15. If 12, 13 or 14 applies, is protecting tenure for faculty with joint appointments a concern?
Yes No

16. How important is accreditation to your college?
critical very important moderately important unimportant

17. Is CSAB/ABET the optimal vehicle for accrediting Colleges of Information Technology?
Yes No

18. Should C.I.T. have their own accreditation organization?
Yes No

19. Should C.I.T. be accredited at all? Yes No

20. What specialty labs do you have? ( please separate terms with semicolon )

21. What percentage of undergraduate students transfer in from other disciplines? \%

22. What percentage of graduate students transfer in from other disciplines? \%

23. What percentage of your graduate students have bachelor's degrees in

\% computer science
\% computer engineering
\% MIS/IS Math
Other (format "discipline, \%" separated by semicolon)

24. What is the amount of the average startup package for new faculty? $

25. What is the service load of your college in terms of student credit hours
and number of courses
per year?

26. What is your College's mission statement?

27. How many permanent, full-time faculty do you currently have?

28. How many adjunct and part-time faculty do you currently have?

29. How would you characterize the evolutionary path from department or program to College status?
(e.g., was it an easy or difficulty transition, what were the administration hurdles or barriers)

30. What advice would you give to other departments or programs who wish to become a College to overcome potential administrative or organizational barriers?

B. Prior status within university

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

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

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

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

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

8. Before the separation, how would you characterize the College's understanding of the role of theory, experiment and practice in computing?
Well understood
Partially understood
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
1 2 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
1 2 3   (1= of slight concern, 2=of moderate concern, 3=of critical concern)

d. "zero-summing problem" - needed reallocation of resources politically infeasible
1 2 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
1 2 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:
Computing is diluted math/science/engineering
Computing is a tool for science/engineering, not a discipline unto itself
Computing is a "support service" not an academic discipline
Computing is little more than end-user computing

D. Administrative information:

(for the following questions, please enter dollar amounts as integers( e.g.. 1400350 rather than $1,400,350))

1. Current salary of Dean/Director $ < 150K 150-175K 175-200K >200K
2. a. Total number of office staff FTE
    b. Average salary of office staff $
3. a. Total number of system administrator FTE
    b. Average salary of system administrator $
4. a. Total number of network administrator FTE
    b. Average salary of network administrator $