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From Data Points to Action Steps: COACHE Findings and Supporting Mid-Career Faculty at UMASS-Amherst

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EVENT: From Data Points to Action Steps: COACHE Findings and Supporting Mid-Career Faculty at UMASS-Amherst DATE: September 29, 2023 TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST PRESENTERS: University of Massachusetts Amherst AUDIENCE: Intended for partner institutions who...

[Virtual Event] Faculty Well-Being and Career Paths: What Campus Leaders Need to Know

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COACHE's Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Kiernan Mathews, will be joining the Chronicle of Higher Education and a panel of higher education leaders to discuss faculty well-being right now. Seventy percent of tenured faculty say their work...

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...

Inside Higher Ed: "Unhappy Associate Professors"

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by Scott Jashik Preliminary results of national survey find their job satisfaction in many areas lags those at assistant and full ranks. This article was originally published in Inside Higher Ed If one had to guess at a sector of the tenure-track and...

Inside Higher Ed: "Mothering at Mid-Career: COACHE and Associate Professor Satisfaction"

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When I saw Scott Jaschik’s piece today about unhappy associate professors, my first thought was, haven’t we already discussed this? Well, yes, we have! Apparently associate professors have been “standing still” for quite some time—at least since the MLA...

New Reports from COACHE Direct College Leaders to Understand, Support Faculty Workplace

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A new series of nine white papers released to members this week by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) offers examples from seventeen colleges and universities whose faculty indicated...

Your New Faculty are Already Reading the Room

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July is more than a planning month. For campus leaders, it is a critical moment to think about what new faculty will experience when they arrive. 

New faculty begin learning about campus culture long before they teach their first class. They notice how...

COACHE releases first study of pre-tenure faculty satisfaction by discipline, sex

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Physical sciences and humanities faculty among those satisfied with more aspects of their careers A new report by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) reveals evidence of major differences in work satisfaction between faculty...

The Academic Environment and Faculty Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Needs

Journal Article

In response to recent research on the well-being of higher education faculty, which has lacked a theoretical model, this study used self-determination theory to model the well-being of 581 tenured and tenure-eligible faculty members at a large midwestern...

Announcing Upcoming Leadership Changes at the Collaborative

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Today, we are very happy to announce forthcoming leadership changes at COACHE. First, we want to let you know that after nearly 17 years with the Collaborative, Kiernan Mathews, Ed.D., is stepping down and leaving Harvard in order to lead a new consortium...

What do new scholars want?

Book Chapter

Changing demographics and a new emphasis on economic development, internationalization, and technology, are changing the ways in which university faculty conduct their work. University and college administrators need to be prepared to recruit, hire, and...

Perspectives on Midcareer Faculty and Advice for Supporting Them

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This 8-page white paper was produced for an invited presentation at the Association of Public Land-grant Universities' (APLU) Council on Academic Affairs Summer Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The paper examines the experiences of midcareer faculty, who...