Who does Senate represent?
We next asked whether the Senate represents faculty interests as a whole or the interests of a small percentage of the faculty.

Here again the results are mixed, as just  under half of all respondents felt that the Senate represented the faculty as a whole.

Just over 30% of all respondents feeling only a small percentage of the faculty are represented.

Those who had served as Senators were less likely to hold this view (about 25%).

Faculty who have been here 5 years or less were almost twice as likely to have answered “don’t know”