Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey 2025

Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey, 2025

The 2025 Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey will launch Tuesday, April 15, 2025, and remain open until April 30, 2025. This is the fourth engagement survey the university has conducted. The survey is administered by CU Vlogƽ Department of Human Resources, in partnership with the Arthur J. Gallagher Co., sponsored by CU Vlogƽ Chancellor Justin Schwartz and Provost Russell Moore. The survey will measure the status of our workforce and several research-based elements of engagement—enthusiasm for one’s work,career satisfaction, pride in the institution, intent to stay, connection to the institution's mission, and others.

  • The survey will focus on key engagement elements like career growth, wellness, teamwork, and key communications.
  • In 2023, we had a 76% staff survey response rate and a 55% faculty response rate, with an overall response rate of 66%. We hope to surpass the overall response rate in 2025 to further engagement and action steps towards improving the work experience of the CU Vlogƽ campus community.
  • The goal of the engagement survey isto gather information from our faculty and staff toinform interventions and initiatives that enhance the faculty and staff experience.Survey findings will provide insight into the impact of leadership actions and provide trending data on key themes of importance to the campus community.
2025 Timeline
  • April: Survey Distribution
  • June - July: Executive Briefings
  • August: University/Unit Results Shared
  • August – December: Unit Action Planning

Facts and Figures, 2023

The 2023 survey closed on Friday, April 28, 2023. Results were shared with executive leaders and engagement champions in July. With help and guidance from Engagement Champions, departments will review their results and conduct action planningin the fall of 2023.The Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey wasadministered by the CU Vlogƽ Department of Human Resources. The survey wassponsored by CU Vlogƽ Provost Russ Moore and Chief Operating Officer Pat O’Rourke.

  • The survey measuredseveral research-based elements of engagement—enthusiasm for one’s work,career satisfaction, pride in the institution, intent to stay, connection to the mission of the institution, and others. The 2023 survey also measured aspects of faculty and staff wellness, as well as information on the hybrid work environment.
  • The goal of the survey wasto gather information from our faculty and staff toinform interventions and initiatives that enhance the faculty and staff experience.Survey findings provide insight into the impact of leadership actions and provide trending data on key themes of importance to the campus community.
  • The Department of Human Resources partneredwith the Arthur J. Gallagher Co. to administer the survey.
  • The 2023 survey wasthe third engagement survey conducted by the Department of Human Resources. Previous surveys were conducted in 2017 and 2020.

Current & Previous Survey Results

Engagement Champions

Engagement Champions are representatives from respective units across campus who assist in the support and facilitation of faculty and staff engagement in their specific departments.

Frequently Asked Questions

General Results
General

The survey is a formal opportunity for faculty and staff to express their opinions related to their workplace. The University of Colorado ( CU Vlogƽ) has partnered with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. ( Gallagher) to administer a survey that measures faculty and staff engagement. CU Vlogƽ will use the results to create action plans to implement change in the work environment for all faculty and staff.

The field of engagement includes concepts such as satisfaction, commitment, and empowerment. For our purposes, we define engagement as the "involvement and enthusiasm of employees with their work and their work environment.”

Yes. five additional questions areasked of the faculty.

The Vlogƽ is committed to hearing the voice of our faculty and staff. One of the ways we do this isthrough regularassessments; different surveys are implemented by various groups and measure different dimensions of the faculty and staff experience and target different campus populations.We survey frequently to identify the impact of organizational changes, stay informed about the staff and faculty and experience, and guide organizational changes.

The CCSsurvey examinedworkplace environment and practices, and experiences of incivility, harassment, discrimination, and demographics.While there is overlap between the two surveys, the faculty and staff engagement survey measures satisfaction, motivation, wellness, commitment, retention, recognition, pay,and other dimensions of the faculty and staffwork experience.

Yes. The survey isanonymous and no individuals areidentified.

If you have general questions with regard to the survey, contactemployeeengagement@colorado.edu.

Results will be shared with executive leaders in the summer of 2025 and then distributed to units, supervisors, and the rest of campus in the fall of 2025.

All regular tenure/tenure-track faculty, research faculty, and other faculty are invited to participate in the survey. Temporary appointments and retirees do not participate in the survey.

Personally identifiable information is released to no one outside of Arthur J. Gallagher. Survey results will in no way identify you individually, and aggregate findings will be used for organizational improvements.

The survey has approximately 46 close-ended questions. Participants respond to survey items on a six-point scale.6=Strongly Agreeand 1= Strongly Disagree.

Survey questions fall into the following categories:

  • Engagement (belonging, pride, satisfaction, and others)
  • Career growth
  • Communication on key issues
  • Pay and benefits
  • Wellness and burnout
  • Supervisor Relationship
  • Teamwork
  • Work environment

Key drivers are those items on the survey that have the greatest impact on engagement for our faculty and staff. These survey items are the most powerful indicators of engagement.

The survey results provide both overall scores, as well as engagement index scores. The engagement index score is derived from items on the survey that are most highly correlated with research on engagement.

As part of the survey modeling and design efforts, the reliability of our survey items and thematic groupings of items are confirmed through multiple regression modeling (to understand the magnitude of the empirical relationship between survey items and key outcomes of interest), factor analytics (to ensure the integrity of the survey categories), various tests of validity (such as criterion and predictive validity, and non-statistical variations such as face validity), as well as reliability testing such as Chronbach’s alpha (to assess how well items are coalescing as categories).