Harvard yesterday released the results of last year's extensive survey of junior faculty, painting a generally positive picture of the status and situation of the Faculty's non-tenured professors.

The Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected steering committee, was presented with the data yesterday and will discuss it through February.

But administrators involved with the first junior faculty survey since 1968 predicted yesterday that the upbeat findings will probably not prompt any major reforms.

"The junior faculty members have an enormous amount of satisfaction with their time here," explained Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, who oversaw the survey.

"That's not to say that they didn't have complaints of various kinds."

Problems cited include the slight tenure prospects at Harvard and in the tight academic job market generally; dealing with family responsibilities and teaching loads; poor access to word processing and secretarial services; and incomplete information on research opportunities, maternity policies, and promotion mechanisms.

However, the telling statistic, administrators said, was the 65 percent who answered yes to the question. "Would you choose Harvard again?"

Another 28 percent expressed reservations, and 7 percent answered in the negative.

Two thirds of the 180 assistant and associate professors solicited last spring turned in the 16-page survey by early summer.

The survey results are somewhat rosier than the findings of a Crimson poll of junior faculty last spring, which found just under half of those surveyed to be pleased on the whole with their Harvard experience.

One problem administrators had expected to show up in the survey never materialized at all.

"When we undertook the survey, we expected that we would find some important and marked differences between men and women junior faculty members," said Nancy L. Maull, assistant to the dean of the Faculty.

"In fact we found very few differences," she added. "There are problems for junior faculty members, but they are problems for men and women alike."

Several junior faculty members have speculated that the University was attempting to hide these problems, and have pointed to the six-month delay in the collation of the survey results.

Whitla yesterday denied this allegation, and attributed the delay to the changing of the guard in the Dean of the Faculty's office.