@article {1309534, title = {Toward a Greater Understanding of the Tenure Track for Minorities}, journal = {Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning}, volume = {41}, number = {5}, year = {2009}, pages = {38-45}, abstract = { To understand life on the tenure track, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) conducts an annual Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. Through surveys and in focus groups and interviews, hundreds of tenure-track faculty members share what affects their workplace satisfaction and, ultimately, their success. The clarity and reasonableness of the criteria and standards for achieving tenure, institutional and support for teaching and research, the effectiveness of workplace policies and practices, departmental climate and collegiality, and work/life balance are among the issues addressed. In 2009, for the first time, COACHE collected enough faculty respondents who self-identified in each racial and ethnic category, in proportions similar to their representation in the faculty population nationally, to look at each group separately. An examination of the different groups{\textquoteright} experiences of faculty life is important to the welfare of students. This article presents a series of commonly asked questions about the COACHE research. }, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3200/CHNG.41.5.38-45?needAccess=true}, author = {Cathy Trower} }