Higher Education Leadership

Hearing from folks facing similar challenges or experiences to yours is one way to discover useful new approaches, learnings or tools that you might apply to your own leadership or institution. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed are...

Taking part in professional development events is one of the best ways to build your network with other colleagues in community affairs, as well as your own capacity for success. In addition to leaning in to COACHE’s events and opportunities, there is a...

A long-respected leader in the efforts to build diverse faculty at universities, Susan Carlson provides a look back on how she achieved success borrowing from a key feature in theatrical comedy — the “middle space.” Using the idea of middle space allowed...

PARTNER SPOTLIGHTDr. Amal Kumar While faculty satisfaction is closely tied to student success, the faculty experience continues to be understudied, leaving institutions with fewer answers or best practices to address the unique challenges facing faculty...

Salary, quality of colleagues, and the reputation of the department or institution are the top reasons given by faculty to either leave or stay in their position in higher education. The findings are according to results from the 2021-2022 COACHE Faculty...

PARTNER SPOTLIGHTLafayette College When administrative and faculty leadership at Lafayette College reviewed the results of their 2020 COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, they saw a clear desire from faculty to engage more fully in critical issues...

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...

by Sara Polsky The departure of a single faculty member can cause a significant ripple in the pond of a liberal arts college, as one person’s departure has the potential to impact the community when it comes to teaching, institutional governance, and...

by Sara Polsky The Seminar on Leadership of the Faculty—a COACHE program run in partnership with the Harvard Institutes on Higher Education—offers deans and provosts from institutions across the world an opportunity to learn from experts and each other...