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COACHE Data: Faculty Says Culture is the Top Thing to Address to Improve the Workplace

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According to the 2022 COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, “culture” tops the list of responses from faculty who were asked to identify the one thing their institution could do to improve the workplace for them. The five most-commonly cited issues were...

COACHE 20th Anniversary Impact Report: Looking Back & Moving Forward

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December 2025 TWO DECADES OF TURNING FACULTY DATA INTO INSTITUTIONAL IMPACT For 20 years, COACHE has partnered with more than 300 colleges and universities to move beyond anecdotes — helping them transform faculty feedback into actionable insights that...

Building Policies through a Collaborative Forum at Skidmore College

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Skidmore College, a liberal arts college in upstate New York, wanted to understand climate and leadership challenges within their academic departments. As faculty groups rarely had the opportunity to collaborate, it became increasingly difficult for...

Examining Faculty Departure and Retention at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

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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...

Why Do Faculty Leave or Stay?: COACHE Faculty Retention and Exit Survey Highlights Top Factors

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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...

Highlighting Partner Success: Effectively Communicating with Faculty

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Turning any initiative into a success at a college or university often isn’t possible without faculty engagement. And in many cases, faculty engagement isn’t possible without a well-thought out communications plan. This is true whether it be for the...

The Truth About Peer Selection in Higher Education

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by Todd Benson As we near the end of our survey administration cycle, our team has begun working on institutional reports. The reports that COACHE provides are distinctive in that they allow our partners to select five peer institutions for more direct...

How Partners Use COACHE

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2023 Online Strategy Workshop Recordings

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EVENT: Interpreting and Disseminating Results of the COACHE Survey: The Critical Role of Faculty Fellows RECORDING DATE: October 13, 2023 SESSION: Florida State University Faculty Fellows program leveraged the talents, interests, and perspectives of a...

New study indicates faculty treatment matters more than compensation

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Survey of 4,500 tenure-track faculty reveals surprising findings A new study by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), a research project based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has revealed that climate, culture...

Building Trust, Engaging Faculty, Taking Action: Supporting the Next Generation of Faculty at Georgia State University

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Georgia State University decided to partner with COACHE after the university’s Commission on the Next Generation of Faculty urged the institution to gather more robust data on diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus. The provost’s office made three...

Post-tenure Review from a Growth Mindset

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by Kiernan Mathews I recently fielded a question from a COACHE partner who wanted to know about institutions doing good work in annual appraisal processes that makes real distinctions in faculty performance. There are effective, developmental, faculty...