The Collaboration on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE)
2008-2009 Survey of Pre-Tenured Tenure Track Faculty
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The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) Survey, administered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a national survey designed to collect information from pre-tenured tenure track faculty on a range issues identified as critical to the success of early faculty. Specifically, this includes:
Tenure
Nature of work
Policy effectiveness
Climate, culture and collegiality on campus
Global satisfaction
The reports listed below provide background information about the project and detailed results, including comparisons of responses of NC State pre-tenured faculty to those at peer institutions, NC State females to males, NC State faculty of color to white faculty, and NC State results from the 2008-2009 COACHE survey to those from the 2005-2006 Survey.
Reports prepared by COACHE
Executive Summary(pdf document)
Includes discussions on areas of strength and of concern, improving and worsening trends, and benchmark comparisons to other institutions.
Final Report
(pdf document)
Complete final report prepared and provided by COACHE (270 pages) that includes:
Preface �Guide to your report� including an overview of the survey research design and methods
Population demographics, response rate, and weighting procedures
Peer institutions
Demographic profile of respondents
Executive summary of results
Data tables (means and frequencies [overall, by gender, by race/ethnicity, by academic discipline, NCSU change over time])
Responses to open-end questions
Questionnaire
(download an MS Word version of the questionnaire)
List of participating institutions
Suggestions for action
UNC system-wide "local" questions
(pdf documents)
NC State results from custom questions asked of all UNC institutions (overall, by gender, and by race/ethnicity)
NC State responses to UNC custom open-end questions
Data and reports prepared by NC State
Files prepared by Office of Institutional Planning and Research (using those provided by COACHE), the purpose of which is to provide the reader with more concise and user-friendly reports focusing on results for NC State.
Project Summary
Introduction, Research Methods, and Response Rates
(MS Word document)
A brief background on the COACHE study, an overview of the research design, and NC State response rates and a demographic profile of our participants compared to that of our COACHE peer group.
Highlights of NC State results, including differences by gender and race/ethnicity and a comparison of findings from the 2005-2006 survey.
Data Tables
NC State, Peers, and All Compararable Participating Institutions: Overall mean ratings (Excel file)
Peer group comparisons (overall, by gender, and race/ethnicity)
NC State mean ratings compared to those of our COACHE peer group overall, by gender, and by race/ethnicity.
Peer group comparison by discipline
NC State mean ratings and frequency distribution for each question compared to those of our peer group and to all universities (aggregated) participating in COACHE, separately by academic discipline.
Change over time
NC State mean ratings from the 2008 COACHE Survey compared to those from the 2006 COACHE Survey, overall, by gender, and by race/ethnicity.
Responses to Open-End Questions
Presentations
Dean's Council (December 16, 2010)
Faculty Senate
(January 25, 2011)
Faculty Well Being Advisory Committee (April 21, 2011)
Contacts:
Dr. Betsy E. Brown
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
North Carolina State University
206 Holladay Hall
Campus Box 7112
Raleigh NC 27695-7112
Phone: 919-513-7741
Fax: 919-515-1587
Email: betsy_brown@ncsu.edu
Dr. Nancy Whelchel
Associate Director for Survey Research
Office of Institutional Planning and Research
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7002
Raleigh, NC 27695-7002
Phone: 919-515-4184
Email: nancy_whelchel@ncsu.edu
Posted: November, 2010