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Inside Higher Ed: "No Room of One's Own"

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Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity. Kiernan Mathews offers thoughts on how scholars and disciplinary societies might level the playing field. This article may be accessed through Inside Higher Ed.

Wall Street Journal: "Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts"

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A study by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education found that men were more satisfied than women with the clarity of their sense of achieving tenure, the number of hours they worked, the amount of time given to conduct research, and the...

Gender Differences in Faculty Member Job Satisfaction: Equity Forestalled?

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Guided by Hagedorn’s (2000) theory of faculty job satisfaction, mindful of social and organizational structures of higher education, and acknowledging recent changes in the academic labor market, this study examines satisfaction for approximately 30,000...

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...

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COACHE was founded in 2003 by Richard Chait and Cathy Trower as a study to examine why fewer women and faculty of color were obtaining tenure

WPI Awarded $1 Million to Build a More Equitable Faculty Promotion Process

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“The ADVANCE grant work was sparked by the results of a Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey WPI conducted in 2014 and 2017 to quantify job satisfaction among faculty. Associate professors, and especially women, reported...

Clear as Mud: Promotion Clarity by Gender and BIPOC Status Across the Associate Professor Lifespan

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Mid-career faculty members often seek to advance to the highest faculty rank of full professor, but research suggests women and Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color (BIPOC) faculty face inequitable patterns in advancement to the full professor rank...

Inside Higher Ed: "Off Track"

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by Kaustuv Basu This article was originally published in Inside Higher Ed An assistant professor teaches more classes than many of her colleagues. She mentors many more students than other professors in the department. Her research suffers because of her...

Engineering a place for women: A study of how departmental climate influences the career satisfaction of female mechanical engineering faculty members

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The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to better understand how female mechanical engineering faculty members’ career experiences in academia affect their satisfaction. The research considered differences in satisfaction reported by female and male...

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...

Partner Perspectives: Creating Transformative Spaces to Build Our Future Faculty

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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...

Inclusivity Programs Show Strong Return On Investment

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PARTNER SPOTLIGHT Florida International University With over one thousand full-time faculty members from around the globe, strengthening inclusivity—with the ability to measure progress—is vital to Florida International University (FIU), which serves more...

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Inside Higher Ed: "No Room of One's Own"

Wall Street Journal: "Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts"

Gender Differences in Faculty Member Job Satisfaction: Equity Forestalled?

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

History & Mission

WPI Awarded $1 Million to Build a More Equitable Faculty Promotion Process

Clear as Mud: Promotion Clarity by Gender and BIPOC Status Across the Associate Professor Lifespan

Inside Higher Ed: "Off Track"

Engineering a place for women: A study of how departmental climate influences the career satisfaction of female mechanical engineering faculty members

New study indicates faculty treatment matters more than compensation

Partner Perspectives: Creating Transformative Spaces to Build Our Future Faculty

Inclusivity Programs Show Strong Return On Investment