April 2023

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

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 coded by COACHE researchers from open-ended responses, with 30% of respondents pointing to culture in their answers. The other most-commonly cited areas were leadership (28%), support for work generally (26%), compensation (25%) and facilities and resources for work (23%). More than 12,680 faculty from 31 colleges and universities completed the survey.  

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Research-Practice Partnership Supports Institutional Effectiveness

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Damani White-Lewis and Dr. Nicholas Havey

Data Results Image“We’re in the business of trying to improve institutional effectiveness,” says Dr. Damani White-Lewis, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. “Without research, practice, and partnership, you don’t have the transformative edge.”

An expanding component of COACHE’s work is strengthening the research-practice partnership through the dissemination of data to scholars, such as Dr. White-Lewis, who are part of a growing field of research focusing on the faculty experience and the academic workforce. Most recently, he was the lead author of the paper “Leaving the Institution or Leaving the Academy? Analyzing the Factors that Faculty Weigh in Actual Departure Decisions,” published in Research in Higher Education, co-authored by Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara, Dr. Kiernan Mathews, and Dr. Nicholas Havey.

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Measurable Results Cultivate Trust and Positive Change at CUNY

PARTNER SPOTLIGHT

City University of New York (CUNY)

Dr. John Verzani and Dr. Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko
Dr. John Verzani and Dr. Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko
City University of New York (CUNY) strives to give faculty a voice in making the university system and its 25 individual campuses better places to work.

Providing faculty with measurable results that show continued progress is a key step in the process.

Leadership has used COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey findings from 2015 and 2019 to take a data-driven approach to increasing faculty satisfaction across the system while also identifying insights unique to individual campuses, explains Dr. Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko, University Dean for Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development. She is currently also serving as Interim Senior University Dean and Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Policy at CUNY.

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Embrace Lifelong Learning with the HSSPA Auditing Group

Embrace Lifelong Learning with the HSSPA Auditing Group:
Enrich Your Harvard Experience by Auditing Courses as a Spouse or Partner.

Moving to a new city or country to support a partner who's attending Harvard can be challenging, especially for international spouses and partners. While their partners are occupied with classes and assignments, spouses and family members often find themselves with more time at hand. That's where the Harvard Students' Spouses and Partners Association (HSSPA) comes in, providing a safe space for community...

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