Faculty to receive COACHE survey on workplace experiences and satisfaction
January 22, 2015
Faculty soon will be invited to take a comprehensive online survey addressing workplace experiences, job satisfaction and career development. The confidential survey will be conducted by the Collaborative in Academic Careers on Higher Education (COACHE), and it opens the week of Jan. 26.
COACHE is an academic survey organization based in the Harvard School of Education, and it serves colleges and universities committed to gathering data to help recruit, retain and develop faculty members, says Peter Hollenbeck, interim associate vice provost for faculty affairs. Hollenbeck, who also is professor of biological sciences, is coordinating the survey at Purdue.
The last COACHE survey at Purdue was conducted in early 2012. Several high-level initiatives were created as a result of faculty responses, including the implementation of faculty equity pay raises and the creation of the Promotion and Tenure Task Force and the Child Care Task Force.
In December, the University announced a decision, based on task force work, to create a new child care facility that will open by fall 2016.
The response rate to the previous COACHE survey at Purdue was 46 percent.
"I hope every faculty member will take the survey, because we want to move Purdue forward, and to do that we need more than anecdotes -- we need solid data," Hollenbeck says.
"This survey is a chance for faculty members to provide information about their views and experiences confidentially, using a vehicle that has a track record of generating concrete action."
All Purdue faculty members on the West Lafayette campus will receive the survey via email during the week of Jan. 26. Survey completion will take approximately 20 minutes.
All responses will be entirely confidential, Hollenbeck says.
The survey is conducted entirely by COACHE at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Both the receipt of anonymized responses and the data tabulation will be done at Harvard, and the Purdue administration will not see or handle any individual responses.
The survey will remain open until mid-April.
For more information about COACHE, visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=coache&pageid=icb.page307142.
Writer: Amanda Hamon Kunz, 49-61325, ahamon@purdue.edu
