Some OSU deans and at least one central administrator may not be living up to faculty expectations, according to a survey by the American Association of University Professors.For the first time in OSU history, all regular faculty members were given the opportunity to evaluate the administration; some administrators received poor scores, according to the AAUP.Gerald Winer, president of the OSU chapter of the AAUP, and Keith Kilty, the group’s vice president, took faculty responses and designed a set of categories for administrators similar to the cumulative grade point average used for students. The scale is in reverse order to the GPA, with a score of one equaling an “A” and a score of five equaling an “E.” All administrators were scored on the same scale.Of four deans rated as poor, Gregory H. Williams, Dean of the College of Law, and Judith S. Koroscik, Dean of the College of Arts, were given the lowest scores by faculty. They scored 4.0 and 4.1 respectively, according to the AAUP report. John M. Cassady, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, and Randall Ripley, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, were among the deans rated poorly, with overall scores of 3.6 and 3.7. When asked to score deans on involving faculty when making major decisions, faculty scored three of the four deans as 4.4-4.5. Ripley was given a 4.0.For leading in the right direction, Ripley scored best with a 3.8. Three of the other lowest rated deans scored 4.0-4.2.Judith Koroscik scored lowest on being courteous and respectful with a 4.5.Responses to the performance of Koroscik and Ripley reveal disturbing trends because of their relatively large sample size, according to the report.Koroscik received negative responses from 75-90 percent of 41 respondents. Ripley received 66-80 percent negative responses from 50 respondents.Two colleges had a relatively small response rate. The College of Law had nine respondents for the survey, and the College of Pharmacy had five respondents.The poorest rated member of the central administration was Vice Provost Nancy Rudd, who scored 3.4.Over half of respondents disagreed or disagreed strongly that Rudd involves faculty centrally in making major decisions, leads in the right direction or treats people courteously and with respect, according to the report. Two hundred eighty-six faculty members responded.Rudd was graded as “low average” in a central administration, which was overwhelmingly rated as average or mediocre. Along with other central administrators who were rated mediocre and received sizable raises recently, Rudd was given a 14.95 percent pay increase over Winter Quarter, according to an AAUP winter report. Senior Vice Provost Edward Ray was scored 2.6 overall by faculty and received one of the largest pay increases of 23.63 percent over Winter Quarter.President William “Brit” Kirwan was rated as “high average” among administrators with 2.5 and also received the largest number of responses with 333.Responses to Kirwan were especially positive in regard to embracing a broad conception of scholarly and creative activity, according to the report. Almost half agreed or strongly agreed that Kirwan leads in the right direction.Forty percent of respondents, though, were undecided when asked if Kirwan involves faculty centrally in making major decisions.With faculty respondents scoring administrators average or mediocre in leading in the right direction and involving faculty centrally in decision making, OSU may have difficulty achieving its goal of being in the top ten of research institutions, according to the AAUP.Exactly 500 surveys were returned from the 2,952 regular faculty members sent the questionnaire, and according to Kilty the sample size is representative of the OSU faculty.”We got as close to a representative sample as one can get with a mail-out survey,” Kilty said.Williams, Cassady, Ripley, Koroscik and Rudd were unavailable for comment.