Invitation to Join COACHE

COACHE invites new and returning members to our 2012 Survey of Faculty Job Satisfaction

Responding to persistent calls from our member Provosts to expand our research to include tenured faculty, COACHE is now recruiting institutions who wish to become better recruiters and developers of faculty talent across the tenure stream. With data, COACHE members can launch a context-sensitive strategy to build a culture of success, to maintain a vibrant faculty, and to help members respond to early signals suggestive of a loss of vitality, for the benefit of everyone with whom faculty share their campuses.

Like over 200 colleges, universities and systems across North America, you can use COACHE's data and network of peers to make your academic workplace more attractive and equitable for faculty. Whether you are responding to the explosion of hiring and turnover costs, to concerns of tenured faculty vitality, or to persistent challenges in diversifying the academy, COACHE's tools are designed to generate not simply "interesting" data, but actionable diagnoses. The results, which include peer comparisons, provide provosts and faculty affairs professionals with a roadmap for making sound investments in their faculty. And now, COACHE offers a special survey module targeted at full-time, non-tenure-track faculty, too.

This web site provides a glimpse at some of COACHE’s findings about what pre-tenure and tenured faculty need and what institutions should be doing to support them. However, the best way to learn more about COACHE's plans for the future--and about how your institution can apply to be a part of it--is to contact us today to schedule a conversation about what we can do together to make every faculty hire count.

Click here to learn how to enroll.

Latest News

Cathy Ann Trower, COACHE Research Director, and the TIAA-CREF Institute publish two papers based on COACHE research.

Senior Faculty Vitality, June 2011

Abstract:  Academic institutions and faculty are pressured today from multiple directions as the federal government demands greater accountability, states cut budgets, tuition payers demand more, granting agencies become more selective and trustees apply more pressure and scrutinize more closely.  In this context, this report examines the workplace satisfaction of senior faculty members at seven public research universities. The vitality, productivity and satisfaction of senior faculty is extremely important to colleges and universities in fulfilling their missions and achieving their goals.  One-quarter of senior faculty surveyed feel that the single most important thing colleges and universities can do to improve the workplace revolves around leadership stability and consistency of mission, focus, and priorities. Sixteen percent feel that increased salaries are most important and 14 percent would like more research support.  To read the full paper, click here.

Senior Faculty Satisfaction: Perceptions of Associate and Full Professors at Seven Public Research Universities, June 2011

Abstract:  The engagement, productivity, and vitality of the faculty are extremely important to the success of academic institutions in fulfilling their missions. This paper presents data from a survey of 1,775 tenured associate and full professors at seven public universities, showing that many are frustrated about leadership turnover and the corresponding shifts in mission, focus, and priorities, and also about salary. In addition, associate professors are less satisfied than full professors on critical factors such as support for research, collaboration, and clarity of promotion, and women are less satisfied than men on numerous dimensions including mentoring support for research and interdisciplinary work, and clarity of promotion.  To read the full paper, click here.

Thinking about joining COACHE?

Are you a college or university president, provost, vice/associate provost, or someone in a position to improve faculty recruitment and retention at your institution?

You can get your questions answered, "virtually" mingle with your counterparts at other institutions, and follow along as Kiernan Mathews, COACHE Director, walks you through the background and benefits of the Collaborative. A link will appear here ten minutes prior to the live web event scheduled for:

>| Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 1:00pm (Eastern)

As an alternative, just contact us at coache@gse.harvard.edu to schedule a personalized tour to COACHE's surveys, reports, and membership resources.

UPCOMING EVENTS

AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 25-28, 2012
Washington, DC
Save the Date! COACHE will host a breakfast meeting at 7am on Saturday, January 28th by invitation only.
For more information, visit the AAC&U website

COACHE Leaders Workshop 2012

COACHE periodically invites leadership from member institutions to come to Cambridge to participate in a forum where ideas and experiences are exchanged and developed using the COACHE survey data.  Our 2012 Leaders Workshop is planned for June 19th. Invitations will go out in the Spring and details will appear here when they are available.  If you have any questions, please contact us at 617-495-5285 or send an email.

To see the agenda for our 2011 workshop, click here.

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