From the Editor: Communications Survey Results

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by Diane Putnam

Thank you very much to the one hundred or so instructors who answered our communications survey. There was a fair amount of positive feedback on recent innovations, as well as some very telling responses both quantitative and qualitative. While 80% of respondents said they prefer to read the newsletter online, a substantial 20% said they'd prefer to read it on paper and about half reported they'd pick it up when in the mailroom or division office. While we would like to see everyone reading the Faculty Voice more often, it's clear that direct emails from CCFT officers and your Council reps. remain your primary mode of receiving union news, and we'll keep those emails coming. In the meantime, we're working on a plan to reach as many members as possible with the newsletter. Here is the statistical breakdown on all the survey's quantitative questions, below.


 

I rely most on the following CCFT communications sources (check all that apply)


CCFT website (ccftcabrillo.org

28

Newsletter (Faculty Voice)

51

Negotiations updates (brief updates with negotiations-specific info.)

34

Emails from the CCFT president, vice-president, and director

80

Face-to-face communication with CCFT representatives

20

Emails from my CCFT representatives

56

Reports from my CCFT representatives at division meetings

34

 

 

 

 

 

 

I read the CCFT newsletter (Faculty Voice)


Often

38

Sometimes

36

Rarely

22

Never

6

 

I am currently employed at Cabrillo


Full-time

60

Part-time

38

Retired

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I prefer to read the newsletter


Online at the CCFT website with email notification when posted

19

Online as an email newsletter

27

Online as an email news synopsis with links to longer articles

32

In hard copy

20

 

Since the newsletter went exclusively online in fall 2012, I read the Faculty Voice


More often than before

19

Less often than before

36

The same as before

45

 

If CCFT reintroduces distribution of hard copies of the newsletter


I would pick one up from my division office

24

I would pick one up from the college mailroom

24

I wouldn't be likely to pick up a hard copy

52

 

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