The new year seems like a "proper time to look inward, and be reflective" to quote this article from 2009 entitled "Taking the Pulse on your Research Operation: How to Perform a Departmental Survey." 

Julie Macksoud (now at Choate Rosemary Hall) details for us how her nearly-post-campaign office at Colby College surveyed their development department, which resulted in great insight and highlighted the work of their research office. 

Taking the Pulse Research Operation_Winter2009.pdf