The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) is a consortium of over 130 colleges and universities across North America committed to making the academic workplace more attractive and equitable for early-career faculty--the cohort most critical to the long-term future of their institutions.

Responding to the explosion of hiring and turnover costs and to persistent challenges in diversifying the academy, COACHE gives presidents, provosts, and deans both peer diagnostics and concrete solutions for informing efficient, effective investment in their faculty. Membership enables colleges and universities to focus on issues critical to faculty success and on steps academic policymakers can take to gain a competitive advantage in faculty recruitment, retention and development.

The core element of COACHE is the Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey designed, tested, and validated in focus groups and a rigorous pilot study. Each section of the COACHE instrument is built to generate a report of not simply "interesting" data, but actionable diagnoses. The COACHE model is designed to take participating institutions from data collection to policy action in less than one year.

Beyond the surveying and analysis, COACHE scholars and staff work with academic leaders to advance our goals of maximizing the impact of the data; of stimulating better questions from and more informed decisions by prospective and current faculty, on and off the tenure track; and of provoking ideas and initiatives that enrich and expand the range of possible improvements to faculty careers.

Now view our 15-minute webinar at any time!

Considering joining COACHE, and interested in learning more about the Collaborative? We have moved our "Online Open House" webinar to an on-demand, narrated presentation that you can view at your convenience. To find out more about the trends in the faculty labor market that brought about COACHE's Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, just click here.