Employee Communication Preferences Survey
Spring 2007
Characteristics of Respondents and Non-respondents
  Sampling Frame Respondents Non-respondents
Characteristic n % n % n %
Employee Type
Classified 558 23.5% 160 25.4% 398 22.7%
Part-time Faculty 381 16.0% 36 5.7% 345 19.7%
Full-time Faculty 1361 57.2% 403 64.1% 958 54.7%
Teaching & Research 814 34.2% 208 33.1% 606 34.6%
Non-Teaching Faculty 547 23.0% 195 31.0% 352 20.1%
Administrators 79 3.3% 30 4.8% 49 2.8%
Ethnicity
American Indian 27 1.1% 9 1.4% 18 1.0%
Asian Pacific Islander 165 6.9% 33 5.2% 132 7.5%
Black African American 73 3.1% 9 1.4% 64 3.7%
Hispanic 70 2.9% 17 2.7% 53 3.0%
Multiple Ethnicities 9 0.4% 4 0.6% 5 0.3%
All Ethnic Minorities 344 14.5% 72 11.4% 272 15.5%
White 1883 79.2% 513 81.6% 1370 78.3%
Declines to Respond 152 6.4% 44 7.0% 108 6.2%
Gender
Female 1280 53.8% 400 63.6% 880 50.3%
Male 1099 46.2% 229 36.4% 870 49.7%
Age (Years)
Mean      45.81      45.79
Min 22 20
Max     74   95  
*Demographic data, including Employee Type were unavailable for 4 respondents. 
1  "Classified" includes full- and part-time OPEU staff.  "Part-time Faculty" includes unclassified teaching /
 research or non-teaching employees with < 0.5 FTE.  The majority are adjunct faculty. 
"Full-time Faculty" includes teaching / research and non-teaching employees  (including academic 
professionals) with >= 0.5 FTE, but excludes those with an EEO code of "10".  
"Administrators" are full-time faculty with an EEO code of "10", including vice provosts, deans, 
associate deans, department chairs and directors.