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The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a research-practice partnership focused on the study of postsecondary faculty experience at different institutions. It was administered CUNY-wide for the first time in spring 2015. Among 250 other colleges, universities, community colleges and systems, CUNY has partnered with COACHE, using their surveys and approaches to examine the faculty experience throughout our system.
Specifically, the survey includes questions related to research-based strategies to effect change in the following areas:
Survey results for individual campuses are benchmarked against faculty working at other CUNY campuses, at “peer” colleges chosen by the individual institution, and at the national cohort of all institutions participating in the COACHE survey. Results are disaggregated by professorial rank, gender, and race/ethnicity. The results of the 2015 survey were used to make changes at the system level and on individual campuses.
At Brooklyn College, the provost created five working groups composed of faculty and administrators to dig deeply into the data and recommend action items in the following areas:
Some of these working groups created additional surveys to gather more data. In response to the recommendations from the working groups and feedback from the surveys, some of the actions taken by the college include: