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Is Your Institution Effectively Supporting Faculty with Disabilities?

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By Todd Benson I recently attended one of my favorite conferences of the year, AAC&U, where I had the chance to share some findings from the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey that provide insight from faculty who live with disabilities. Of the 2021...

What Data Should be Disseminated to Faculty?

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By Todd Benson A provost at a COACHE partner institution recently asked me about the best strategies for disseminating data to faculty. Her team was weighing the risks and benefits of sharing all of the comparative data available in their COACHE report...

What Does Baseball Have to Do with COACHE Surveys? Rethinking Your COACHE Teams by Engaging Pinch Hitters

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By Todd Benson One of the first action items for partners who are undertaking surveys with the Collaborate on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) is to form a COACHE team. Administering any campus-wide, data intensive project necessitates a...

How Data Triangulation Can Convert Skeptics to Supporters

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By Todd Benson When we ask our partners “What’s going to get in the way of working with your faculty around COACHE data?”, a frequent response is that faculty are questioning the results. But to ensure that faculty fully engage with data from the...

Why Deans’ Reports? How to Gain In-Depth Insight at a Divisional Level

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by Todd Benson One of the hallmarks of COACHE’s work is listening. Perhaps the clearest example of COACHE listening to its partners is the development of our COACHE Comparative Data for Deans, otherwise known as Deans’ Reports. These reports were built...

When Perceptions of Diversity Don’t Match Progress: New Analysis from the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey

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by Kiernan Mathews, Todd Benson, Sara Polsky, and Lauren Scungio Since 2005 , the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education’s (COACHE) Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey has been systematically listening to faculty and, campus by campus...

Guidance for Remaining Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Communications (March 23–April 10, 2020)

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by Todd Benson This post serves to offer some communications guidance for the COACHE partners with three weeks remaining in the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey period. We understand that many other priorities are in play right now: these points are...

Considering Part-time Faculty in COVID-19 Response Planning

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by Todd Benson With the sudden escalation in both public concern and genuine risk associated with COVID-19, COACHE’s team has been discussing the implications for faculty. As we discussed the issue, an important question that arose was , “Who might we be...

AAC&U 2020 Annual Meeting: Four Faculty-Focused Tracks Through the Agenda

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COACHE research on the professoriate is shaping the future of higher education leadership, so we are eager to attend next week’s annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities, “ Shaping the Future of Higher Education: An Invitation...

Sharing Data with Faculty: The Paradox of Transparency

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by Todd Benson Today, higher education institutions are using more and more data to drive decision-making. This is a good thing, however, when leaders need to include faculty in decision making and execution offering the right amount of data is of...

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Benson, R. T., & Mathews, K. (2014). COACHE Summary Tables 2014: Selected Dimensions on Faculty Workplace Climate by Discipline, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender.

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Mathews, K., & Benson, R. T. (2018). Evidence-Based Faculty Development: The COACHE Research-Practice Partnership. In Success After Tenure: Supporting Mid-Career Faculty. Stylus Publishing, LLC.

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Benson, T., & Trower, C. (2012). Data, Leadership, and Catalyzing Culture Change. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44(4), 27-34.

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