Resources
Annual ACIFA Climate Survey
The annual ACIFA Climate Survey, which has been distributed to academic staff association offices around the province, is a valuable tool for the tabulation and analysis of the views of academic staff members on working conditions and attitudes within their respective institutions.
The Climate Survey asks individual academic staff members to indicate level of agreement, on a scale of 1 to 5, with thirteen statements, such as Senior administration communicates openly with faculty, and The president of this institution provides effective leadership. In addition, local associations may also include up to ten further questions specific to their own institutions.
The relatively high response rate from ACIFA members, and the continuity from year to year of the thirteen core survey questions asked system-wide, provide a strong foundation to assist academic staff associations in discussions with their administrations regarding key areas of concern within their institutions.
A cross-institutional score chart, giving mean scores, by institution, for each of the thirteen questions common to all, will be published in the ACIFA Faculty Circuit, and will appear on the ACIFA website, in the spring.