Computer Awareness and Use at a Research University

Abstract

The authors describe results of a survey which measured levels of computer awareness and use among the faculty of The University of Georgia. A one page questionnaire was mailed to all tenure track faculty resulting in usable responses from 976 faculty members. A pattern of high interest; moderate use of a mixture of micros, minis and mainframe; and relatively low numbers of faculty publishing relating to computing or authoring software for adoption by others was observed across all of the academic units of the University. Although there was some evidence that those interested in computing responded to the survey at a higher rate than others, the results provide descriptions of the various levels of computer awareness and use among the faculty of a large research University, the types of computers used by the faculty, and the use made of computers by the faculty. Differences among various faculty subgroups are also described.