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Appendix D COACHE Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Results. Office of Institutional Research October 6, 2009. COACHE: The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. An initiative to improve faculty recruitment, retention, and work/life quality
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Appendix DCOACHE Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Results Office of Institutional Research October 6, 2009
COACHE: The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education • An initiative to improve faculty recruitment, retention, and work/life quality • Based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education • Administered at Hamilton in 2005-06 and 2008-09
2008-09 Results • N=16, response rate = 62% • Peer group response rate = 83% • Selected peers: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colgate, Wellesley • Data weighted for each institution by ethnicity and gender • COACHE not reporting inferential statistics • Not reporting statistically significant differences • Census survey, not sample – no inference to entire population • Encourage institutions to report on “meaningful” differences
Benchmarks with improvement from 2005-06 and currently higher than peers: Tenure policies, clarity of tenure expectations • Benchmarks with lower results from 2005-06 and currently lower than peers: Nature of work: teaching