@report {1534850, title = {Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Service}, year = {2014}, abstract = { The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing faculty satisfaction along key themes. This white paper examines service: faculty satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the portion of their time spent on service, the number of committees on which they serve, the attractiveness of those committees, and the discretion faculty have to choose them. The COACHE survey instrument asks questions about the quantity, quality, and equitable distribution of their service work, as well as their institutions{\textquoteright} efforts to help faculty be service leaders and sustain their other commitments. In follow-up interviews with faculty and institutional leaders, a common refrain emerged: faculty are eager to participate not in more service, but in more meaningful service, and institutions must do better to engage and to reward those contributions. }, url = {https://coache.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-coache/files/coache-nature-of-service.pdf} }