The IDEA Center

We are currently conducting research on each of the feedback systems. Updated forms, improved reports, and optional features, including a self-reflection and gap analysis, will be announced soon. Please contact the Center for the current project status.

Every learning institution needs great leadership — from presidents to vice presidents of student affairs, business, and external relations, to all the competent individuals reporting to them. The IDEA Center’s web-based Feedback for Administrators system solicits input on 10 pivotal characteristics, representing five distinct administrative roles. The administrator survey tool gathers impressions on administrative styles, ratings of confidence, and job performance, while also identifying areas for improvement as observed by core constituents. Confidentiality permitting, the respondent sample can be stratified on the basis of a number of roles and relationships, providing a useful demographic breakdown of responses.

This instrument is intended to serve many types of administrators and distinct constituencies and is unique in higher education today. Both the Administrator Information Form and the Survey Form are administered through the Internet for convenience, speed, efficiency, and confidentiality.

Features of the System

• Supplies valuable information — via the Administrator Information Form — to enhance the research efforts of The IDEA Center
• Provides ratings of 10 characteristics representing 5 administrative roles
• Assesses strengths and weaknesses associated with administrative style and personal characteristics and is designed to offer suggestions for improving administrative performance
• Summarizes ratings of overall job performance and confidence in the administrator
• Provides impressions of several types of constituents, for example, colleagues, staff, student, and faculty
• Option to add up to 20 custom questions