March 2018

Stephen Hawking Passes Away

On March 14th, the world lost Stephen Hawking, a luminary who inspired many of the scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope project.  Stephen’s work on black holes helped bring them center stage in our efforts to understand the universe.  He was aware of the EHT’s goal of imaging a black hole event horizon, having visited the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard in April 2016.

The EHT team has been analyzing data collected during our most recent observing campaign, and had hoped to be able to share the results with Stephen. Some EHT members...

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2017 Year in Review: COACHE Reflects on a Year of Transformation

Faculty sitting and talking in a group outsideThe 2016-17 academic year was a time of exponential growth here at the Collaborative. We welcomed our largest and most diverse cohort of Faculty Job Satisfaction partners to-date with over 60 higher education institutions -- public and private, two- and four-year -- joining our ranks. After a successful pilot, we nationally launched the the first ever multi-institutional study of Faculty Retention and Exit to 12 institutions in the spring and 22 in the fall. And to complement our survey offerings, we adapted our reporting platform to be more robust than ever.  

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Findings from the First Ever Multi-Institutional Survey of Faculty Retention & Exit [Infographic]

An infographic with statistics on faculty turnoverIn 2017, after a successful pilot with several campuses of a large public university system, we launched our Faculty Retention and Exit Survey nationwide. 
 
This study represents the first multi-institutional survey of faculty retentions (among those with outside offers) and departures. Until now, there was no coordinated effort for universities to develop a common understanding of the causes, costs, and conduct of faculty mobility. Below are several key findings from the pilot study for practitioners.... Read more about Findings from the First Ever Multi-Institutional Survey of Faculty Retention & Exit [Infographic]