The IDEA Center

As a key leader, the academic dean cultivates resources, guides professional and organizational development, makes critical personnel decisions, and provides crucial direction to a college. IDEA Feedback for Deans addresses all these components, collecting the experiences and impressions of faculty. The system also analyzes personal and professional characteristics, as well as administrative styles, that contribute to effective performance. Online delivery and management by The IDEA Center encourage higher participation rates and more confident and forthright responses.

This evaluation tool is unique in higher education today. Both the Dean’s Information Form and the Faculty Survey are administered through the Internet for convenience, speed, efficiency, and confidentiality.

Features of the System

• Allows the dean to identify the importance of 26 responsibilities in his or her role as dean
• Provides faculty ratings of 26 specific activities in five areas
• Assesses strengths and weaknesses associated with administrative style and personal characteristics and is designed to offer suggestions for improving administrative performance
• Summarizes faculty ratings of overall effectiveness, confidence in the dean, and the dean’s influence on the college’s quality
• Provides impressions of faculty subgroups (e.g., tenure status, rank, length of employment, etc.)
• Includes detailed statistical information about how faculty responded to each question, permitting an in-depth analysis of specific concerns
• Option to add up to 20 custom questions