Faculty to receive COACHE survey this week
January 28, 2015
The COACHE survey -- a comprehensive, confidential survey addressing faculty's workplace experiences, job satisfaction and career development -- is open starting today (Jan. 28). All faculty members on the West Lafayette campus will receive an emailed invitation this week to complete it.
The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) is conducting the survey. Completion takes approximately 20 minutes.
The last COACHE survey at Purdue was conducted in early 2012. Initiatives created as a result of faculty responses include the implementation of faculty pay raises, the creation of the Promotion and Tenure Task Force and the Child Care Task Force, and many others.
Peter Hollenbeck, professor of biological sciences and interim associate vice provost for faculty affairs, encourages all faculty members to take the survey.
"The higher the rate of participation, the better data we will receive and the better we can move Purdue forward," he says.
All responses will be entirely confidential, Hollenbeck says. The survey is provided through Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and response and data tabulation will be done at Harvard.
No one in Purdue's administration will see or handle individual responses, Hollenbeck says. On the unit level, aggregated responses from demographics consisting of fewer than 10 people will not be viewable by anyone at Purdue, either.
The survey will remain open through mid-April.
For more information about the survey, see this previous Purdue Today article. For more information about COACHE, visit http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=coache&pageid=icb.page307142.
Writer: Amanda Hamon Kunz, 49-61325