IDEA Feedback for Deans

Academic deans play a key role in determining the success of a college. Deans offer leadership, develop and allocate resources, provide organizational services, and make key personnel decisions. The IDEA Feedback for Deans instrument considers all of these matters - and more.

It assesses key personal characteristics and administrative styles related to effective performance, while revealing the unique experiences and impressions of constituencies affected by the dean’s decisions. 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

• The Dean identifies 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, 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.