College Barometer (Survey of Instructors at Colleges, Summer Semester 1974)

Occupation situation, career course and judgement on the situation at the colleges from the view of instructors. Topics: 1. Instructing activity and instructing situation: type and extent of instructing activity in current semester; primary or part-time instructing activity; subjects taught; begin of instructing activity after conclusion of course of study and type of interruptions of instructing activity; requirements of college instructors; number of hours of preparation and evaluation for courses conducted and number of participants in current semester; type of support by colleagues; decision-making responsibility in establishing courses available; entitlement to conduct examinations; general characterization of the situation in field of specialization (scale); assumed reasons for lengthening time of studies by students. 2. Occupation data and career course: current and earlier designations of office; current functions at the college; examinations passed, according to type of examination and type of college; type and number of appointments rejected and accepted. 3. Financial and retirement situation: public employee and salary group; proportion of income from college activity in total income; number of colleagues to whom authorized to issue directives. 4. College reform and co-determination in self-administration committees: general attitude to college reform (scale); attitude to establishing assistent professor positions in one´s own field of specialization; attitude to introduction of polytechnics and a federally uniform college organization law; personal membership in co-determination committees and other organizations; judgement on the distribution of co-determination rights and the voting behavior of the ´others qualified as post-doctoral university lecturers´; boycott behavior of certain groups in co-determination committees. 5. General political and college policy attitudes: personal interest in college policy questions; attitude to political college groups; preferred measures to cover an increased need for instructors and personal willingness to increase service; attitude to radicals in the civil service; party preference. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; school education; vocational training; occupation; professional position; professional career; income; social origins. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate.