Diversity and Inclusion Master Plan

Appendix A

Climate Survey Results

A campus-wide climate survey for faculty, staff, administrators, and students was designed by the Diversity and inclusion Master Plan Committee to evaluate, for the first time, the thoughts and feelings of the SUNY community. The survey focused specifically on the perceptions of bias, exclusionary behavior, fairness, respect, concerns about welfare, belonging, supervisory/faculty relations, and overall job/school satisfaction. In the context of the development of this diversity and inclusion plan, the goal of the Committee was to analyze the overall results and to identify potential differences between the constituent groups at the College. The survey responses were analyzed as a whole, and were also broken down by race, age, position, sexual orientation, and religion. Note: this survey was developed in-house and is the first one to be developed at the College, therefore there are no internal or external benchmarks or baselines to compare the results presented. The Climate Survey will be further refined in the near future and the results of this survey will be used as a baseline. We will also continue to explore different instruments that will allow for benchmarking and fruitful comparisons.

The Diversity and Inclusion Master Plan Committee created two surveys, one for faculty/staff/administrators and one for students.

Both surveys had two types of questions:

a) Demographic and job/class characteristic questions, such as, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Re ligion, Age, “What is your Class/position?” b) Perception of exclusionary behavior, bias, fairness, respect, concern about welfare, belonging, relations with faculty and administration (supervisor for the workforce survey), and overall work/study satisfaction.

Survey items were adapted from Stecker 15 and the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPAHR) 16 .

Exclusionary behavior. Exclusionary behavior was measured using the items:

Within the past two years, have you personally experienced any exclusionary behavior at the College? Within the past two years, have you observed any exclusionary behavior at the College? Answers: Yes/No

15 Stecker, T. (2004). Well-being in an academic environment. Medical Education, 38, 465-478. 16 CUPAHR (2016). Climate Survey areas to survey. Retrieved from, https://www.cupahr.org/knowledgecenter/hehr_db/articles/hr_mgmt/Climate%20Survey%20Questions%20to%20Ask%20Employees.pdf

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