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COACHE Survey


Dear faculty and other members of the UW community,
 

I encourage you to review the 2008 COACHE survey results for University of Wyoming, which you can access using the link to the right labeled UW COACHE Report.
 

COACHE stands for The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, a project run out of Harvard University. The survey targets faculty who are on the tenure track but not yet tenured. It asks them a series of questions about the university work environment, focusing on factors that affect job satisfaction and success. You can read more about COACHE at: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~coache/.
 

A large number of U.S. colleges and universities now participate in COACHE, so it is possible to compare UW’s results with averages for all participating institutions nationally. Additionally, UW received results for a small set of self-selected comparator institutions –all of them land-grant schools. UW’s results are also broken down for comparison purposes for women and men, white faculty and faculty of color, and by broad disciplinary cohort.
 

Academic Affairs and PACMWA (the President’s Advisory Council for Minority and Women’s Affairs) co-sponsored UW’s participation in the COACHE survey. From this website you have easy access to the survey results, to more information about the COACHE project, and to a brief summary of UW’s results developed by the Office of Academic Affairs with input from a small faculty group that reviewed the results over the course of last summer. This summary was also provided to the university Board of Trustees at their September 2008 meeting.
 

I encourage you to share your thoughts on the survey results with colleagues and to use the results as a basis for dialogue on workplace issues within your units. The Office of Academic Affairs welcomes any comments or suggestions for approaches to addressing issues of concern highlighted in the survey results. Feel free to send those comments or suggestions to Associate Provost Nicole Ballenger.
 

If you have any problems with the links from this site, please contact Justin McDonald.
 

We look forward to hearing from you.