Research on Faculty at Emory

At Emory, the provost is charged with advancing faculty scholarship in all its forms. To assist in this charge, the Office of Institutional Research investigates ways the university can improve support for faculty scholarship and collegial interaction.

IR has conducted various research projects. Our research encompasses three strategies the office has found to be successful: focus groups, interviews with individuals from segments of the faculty population, and surveys of the entire faculty or specific segments of that population. Specifically, this research seeks to illuminate the ways Emory can better match support for scholarship to identified needs of the faculty; successes and challenges faculty experience at important career points, or the nature of strong and useful intellectual connections.

Selected Research Projects:

• The Provost's Discussion Series
• Study of Support for Faculty Scholarship and Collegial Interaction
• Study of Intellectual Initiatives
• Qualitative Study of the Luce Seminar Series
• The 1998 UCLA HERI Survey of Faculty
• Survey of Scholarly Interests in Religion
• Faculty Gender Equity Analysis
• Why Faculty Come To Emory
• Views of Interdisciplinary Scholarship at Emory
• Scholarship in Greater Atlanta and Georgia
• Teaching Excellence: How Faculty Guided Change
• Provost's Committee on Statistics/Biostatistics