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Summary of Results: AOA Optometric Educator Faculty Opinion Survey

1. How long have you been practicing optometry?
   
   

   # of years in practice # of faculty responding % of the faculty responding not practicing 6 3% 0-5 years 31 15% 6-10 years 38 18% 11-15 years 21 10% 16-20 years 32 15% 21-25 years 23 11% 26-30 years 36 17% 31-40 years 19 9% more than 40 years 1 0.4%

   
   
   
2. How long have you been an optometric educator?
   
   

   # of years in practice # of faculty responding % of the faculty responding 0-5 years 51 24% 6-10 years 44 21% 11-15 years 28 13% 16-20 years 25 12% 21-25 years 26 12% 26-30 years 25 12% 31-40 years 12 6% more than 40 years 1 0.4%

   
   
   
3. How many days/week do you practice (without supervising students) away from your school?
   
   

   0 days (100% time faculty) 60% 1 day 21% 2 days 5% 3 days 5% 4 days 6%

   
   
   
4. Name of your institution
   
   

   Institution # of responses % of responses Illinois College of Optometry 32 15% State University of New York 22 10% SCCO 19 9% NECO 17 8% Nova Southeastern 16 8% Berkeley 14 7% UAB 11 5% Indiana University 11 5% Northeastern State 11 5% University of Houston 10 5% PCO 10 5% The Ohio State University 7 3% Michigan College of Optometry 5 2% UMSL 5 2% Pacific University 4 2%