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Faculty Survey
Discover why activating the PIR faculty survey
strengthens your school’s impact strategy.
Why activate the Faculty Survey?
The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) has always empowered schools to listen to student voices, but what about your faculty’s perspective? By integrating the faculty survey, business schools gain a dual-stakeholder view that is essential for meaningful, credible transformation.
Identify alignment
and gaps
By comparing faculty and student responses, schools can detect where perceptions align, a sign of healthy, transparent culture, and where they diverge. For example, faculty might rate their teaching innovation highly, while students feel otherwise.
Or students might perceive strong engagement with society, while faculty underestimate it. These insights allow schools to target improvements precisely, avoiding blind spots and working from a shared understanding of reality.
Strengthen trust and transparency
Collecting and sharing results from both groups signals a commitment to open dialogue. Faculty appreciate being included in the feedback process, while students feel heard and respected. This transparency nurtures a culture of trust, reducing resistance to change and encouraging a more collaborative environment. Over time, schools that foster this transparency build stronger reputations as future-oriented institutions with shared ownership of their mission.
Spot blind spots
Too often, institutions rely on top-down perspectives to drive change. The faculty survey helps challenge assumptions and exposes hidden weaknesses or strengths. If faculty overestimate the inclusivity of a program, for example, the gap with student perceptions signals an opportunity for discussion and improvement. Likewise, positive surprises — where students rate something more highly than faculty — can reveal cultural strengths that deserve to be celebrated and scaled.
Drive shared ownership
Meaningful, sustainable change depends on shared commitment. When faculty are involved from the start — not just informed after the fact — they become allies in the process. The faculty survey is a strategic invitation for educators to co-own the school’s mission, co-design improvements, and become ambassadors for positive impact. This shifts the conversation from top-down reforms to a co-created journey of improvement, where everyone contributes and benefits.
