Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey, United States, 2024 (ICPSR 39221)
Version Date: Aug 12, 2025 View help for published
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Sage Love, Ithaka S+R;
Melissa Blankstein, Ithaka S+R
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39221.v1
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The first cycle of the 2024 US Instructor Survey queried a random sample of faculty members and instructors in the United States to gain a better understanding of their attitudes, perceptions, and practices regarding teaching, learning, and instructional support at their respective campuses. This survey is a renewed adaptation of Ithaka S+R's triennial US Faculty Survey, fielded since 2000, with a special focus on instruction, diverse teaching, and learning modalities.
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Weight variables are mentioned in the metadata, but are not present in the data. No further information was provided.
- For additional information, please refer to the Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey website.
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The population for this survey is faculty members and instructors at four-year colleges and universities that offer a bachelor's degree or higher.
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Invitation emails and reminder messages were distributed from Ithaka S+R via Qualtrics and several partner scholarly societies. As the responses varied by discipline, variables were weighted to the aggregated results proportionally to match population parameters.
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This survey study covers instruction and teaching at four-year colleges and universities in the United States, covering disciplines such as the major arts, sciences, social sciences, and other major professional fields.
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Respondents were asked questions about professional responsibilities, teaching practices, perspectives on instructional support, the role of the academic library, and open educational resources (OER). Additionally, respondents were randomly assigned a block of questions on one of two thematic areas-one on faculty use and perceptions of generative AI in instruction and the other on academic freedom and censorship.
Demographic variables included a respondent's age, gender, title or role, primary academic field, institution's Carnegie classification, number of years in their field, number of years at their college or university, the types of courses they have taught in the span of the last two years (a lower division undergraduate course, an upper division undergraduate course, and/or a graduate level course), and whether the respondent primarily identifies as a researcher, teacher, or somewhere in between.
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The survey was fielded in Spring 2024 (Feb-March 2024) to a sample of 135,384 faculty members and instructors, and received a total of 5,259 completed surveys for an overall response rate of 3.9%.
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2025-08-12
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2025-08-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The variable KEYCODE corresponds with the following weight information, which is not present in the data. No further information was provided.
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- Educ: 5.63803552607591
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- Foreignl: 0.670860468244705
- Geog: 0.278173119068627
- Geol: 1.71020090280777
- History: 2.24746193325794
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- Math: 1.0531054081124
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- PubHlth: 0.146475540286777
- PubPol: 0.259691394862352
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- SlavStud: 0.943064951543675
- Soc: 0.813785991579756
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- WomStud: 1.16663149240301
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?