Since 2003, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), a research-practice partnership (RPP), has been committed to improving the workplace, career and overall experience of faculty members. COACHE is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has surveyed 20,000+ faculty members at more than 300 colleges and universities. Survey results are intended to be used to develop strategies to improve the professional lives of faculty members; the goal is to create an environment where faculty can do their best work.
In the spring of 2019 and again in 2023, DU faculty members were invited to complete a survey as a core initiative of achieving R1 Our Way that covers:
Nature of Work
Resources and Support
Cross-Silo Work and Mentorship
Tenure and Promotion
Institutional Leadership
Shared Governance
The Department
Faculty are central to the mission of the University of Denver. Your commitment to improving this workplace was reflected the extraordinary response rates (64% in 2023 and 65% in 2019 repectively). The survey results revealed diversity of opinions across campus and some significant concerns. We invite your participation as we move forward, building on these results to improve our working environments. For more information about methodology and details regarding scale items and reliability, please view the COACHE 2022-23 Survey instrument and the COACHE Instrumentation Report.
COACHE Faculty Engagement Series
As part of the suite of R1 Our Way initiatives, DU participated in the COACHE Faculty Satisfaction Survey. At the R1 Celebration on October 25, 2023, results were made available through MyDU. Please visit our Findings page for instructions on how to access preliminary reports. To better understand these results, as well as next steps for DU, a series of COACHE faculty engagements will be held in the Winter Quarter. The first event will be a broad overview of survey results. Subsequent engagements will focus on faculty subgroups and themes. Please join us to learn more about the results, provide your feedback, and participate in shaping next steps at one or all of these events:
Thursday, January 18, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. COACHE Overview and Roundtable Discussions Renaissance Room, View Overview session recording here.
Friday, January 19, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Faculty Senate COACHE Discussion of results, AAC 290
Monday, January 22, 2024 | 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Diving Deeper into the COACHE Data: Results for Women and Women-Identifying Faculty in CNSM and RSECS. Co-sponsored by DU-MERISTEM and Faculty Affairs Room: ECS 510 .
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. COACHE Overview, Faculty of Color Data, and Roundtable Discussion co-sponsored with the Faculty of Color Association (FOCA)m, Ruffatto Commons, Morgridge College of Education, Ruffatto Hall. To attend, please register here.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. COACHE Overview, Teaching & Professional Faculty Data, and Roundtable Discussion, Faculty Lounge, Community Commons 2800. To attend, please register here.
Specials Thanks to the COACHE Data Governance Committee
- Renee Botta (Faculty Senate)
- Ryan Elmore (Daniels College of Business)
- Mike Furno (Institutional Research)
- Wojciech Kossek (RSECS)
- Mary Claire Loftus (CAHSS)
- Katia Miller (Institutional Research)
- Nicole Nicotera (Graduate School of Social Work)
- Terese Rainwater (Provost/Faculty Affairs)
- Gohar Tovbis (Institutional Technology)
- Lauren Turner (Libraries/Faculty Affairs Fellow)
- Aparna Vaidyanathan (Institutional Technology)
- Maria Vukovich (Graduate School of Professional Psychology)
COACHE Data Summary 1-pagers
COACHE Faculty Response Rates by Subgroup
Post COACHE 2019 Faculty Affairs Programming
COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey
COACHE Benchmark Cohort Comparisons and Definitions
COACHE Benchmark Score by Race, Gender and Tenure Status
COACHE DU Comparison to Cohort Mean, Range, and Percentile Scores