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Strategies for Junior Faculty Job Satisfaction How does the satisfaction of pre-tenure faculty members differ at public and private universities? In what ways are African-American, Latina/o, or Asian/Pacific Islander professors more or less satisfied than their white colleagues? Where exactly are the gaps in job satisfaction between men and women on the tenure track? Based on its database of over 8,500 respondents from 100 four-year colleges and universities, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education is releasing an analysis of pre-tenure faculty satisfaction across these important institutional and demographic dimensions. On Monday, December 15 at 2 p.m. Eastern, Cathy Trower, COACHE research director and co-principal investigator, and Kiernan Mathews, COACHE director, will help make practical sense of these results, and discuss how colleges can use them to improve their faculty recruitment and retention efforts. Among the topics that will be covered: • Confirming evidence -- and several surprises
-- about the junior faculty experience The presentation will focus not on any one kind of college (public, private, wealthy, poor), but on strategies that are broadly applicable. After a 30-minute presentation, our speakers will respond to questions for an additional 30 minutes. The entire event will last one hour. This audioconference is ideal for: • Provosts |
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| The "Strategies for Junior Faculty Job Satisfaction" audio conference costs $199 for a single telephone line; listen yourself or with a group around a conference table. Register early -- through Friday, December 5 -- and the cost is only $149. Upon registering, you'll be e-mailed information about how to dial in. A day before the conference, we'll send you a PowerPoint that you can use to follow along with the presentation. This is an audio-only conference; you will not need to be connected to the Internet to participate. |
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About the presenters: Cathy A. Trower, COACHE research director and co-principal Investigator, is an expert on faculty work/life, including faculty diversity and generational issues, faculty in STEM disciplines and health professions, interdisciplinary work, and general trends in faculty employment. Trower is currently heading up the COACHE Research Institute for scholars interested in using COACHE's robust faculty satisfaction database in their research. She has published numerous articles and several book chapters about faculty work/life, and edited a book entitled Policies on Faculty Appointment: Standard Practice and Unusual Arrangements (2000). Prior to coming to Harvard, she was a senior-level administrator of business degree programs, and an adjunct faculty member, at Johns Hopkins University. Kiernan Mathews is director of COACHE, which he joined in its pilot phase, the Study of New Scholars. He has directed the expansion of that study into what is now a collaboration of over 130 participating colleges and universities providing college leaders with policy analysis and recommending implementations toward creating a more satisfied, more committed, and more diverse faculty. Prior to his work in academy, Kiernan directed new projects at Routledge Publishing and the LEGO Company. About Inside Higher Ed: |