Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey 2025

The 2025 Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey closed on May 7. Results will be shared in August 2025.听

Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey, 2025

The 2025 Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey launched on April 15 and closed on听May 7.听This is the fourth engagement survey the university has conducted. The survey was administered by 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Department of Human Resources, in partnership with the Arthur J. Gallagher Co., sponsored by 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Chancellor Justin Schwartz and Provost Russell Moore.听The survey measured the status of our workforce and several research-based elements of engagement 鈥 enthusiasm for one鈥檚 work,听career satisfaction, pride in the institution, intent to stay, connection to the institution's mission, and others.

  • The survey focused on key engagement elements like career growth, wellness, teamwork, and key communications.
  • In 2025, we had a 73% staff survey response rate and a 51% faculty response rate, with an overall response rate of 63%.
  • The goal of the engagement survey was听to gather information from our faculty and staff to听inform interventions and initiatives that enhance the faculty and staff experience.听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:听Survey Distribution
  • June - July:听Executive Briefings
  • August:听University/Unit Results Shared
  • August 鈥 December:听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 planning听in the fall of 2023.听The Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey was听administered by the 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Department of Human Resources. The survey was听sponsored by 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Provost Russ Moore and Chief Operating Officer Pat O鈥橰ourke. 听

  • The survey measured听several research-based elements of engagement鈥攅nthusiasm for one鈥檚 work,听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 was听to gather information from our faculty and staff to听inform interventions and initiatives that enhance the faculty and staff experience.听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 partnered听with the Arthur J. Gallagher Co. to administer the survey.
  • The 2023 survey was听the third engagement survey conducted by the Department of Human Resources. Previous surveys were conducted in 2017 and 2020.

Current & Previous Survey Results

Engagement Champions听

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.

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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 ( 兔子先生传媒文化作品) has partnered with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. ( Gallagher) to administer a survey that measures faculty and staff engagement. 兔子先生传媒文化作品 will use the results to create action plans to implement change in the work environment for all faculty and staff.

听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.鈥

听Yes. five additional questions are听asked of the faculty.

The survey system meets the WCAG 2.1 and 508-compliant. If you require assistance in accessing and completing the survey, or if you plan to use screen-reading software to complete the survey, please contact ADA Compliance at听adacoordinator@colorado.edu.听ADA Compliance will coordinate with Human Resources to ensure you have an opportunity to complete the survey.听

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

The Campus Culture Survey examined听the workplace environment and practices, as well as experiences of incivility, harassment, and discrimination, and demographics.听While there is overlap between the two surveys, the faculty and staff engagement survey measures satisfaction, motivation, wellness, commitment, retention, recognition, pay,听and other dimensions of the faculty and staff听work experience.

听Yes. The survey is听confidential, and no individuals are听identified. No one from 兔子先生传媒文化作品 will see individual survey results. Results will be grouped together and only reported at the unit level if five or more respondents responded. If a work group has fewer than five responses, results can be reported when combined with another group.

Personally identifiable information is released to听no one outside of Arthur J. Gallagher, not even the campus sponsors or facilitators. Survey results will听not identify you individually; only aggregate findings will be used for organizational improvements.

If you have general questions with regard to the survey, contact听employeeengagement@colorado.edu.

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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.

听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.

听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.听听6=Strongly Agree听and 1= Strongly Disagree.

Survey questions fall into the following categories:听

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

听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.

听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.听

听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鈥檚 alpha (to assess how well items are coalescing as categories).

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