COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey

The University of Arkansas is dedicated to generating knowledge, discovery, and innovation that will significantly influence the future and cultivate excellence in the next generation of leaders, scholars, and citizens. We acknowledge the pivotal role faculty members play in realizing this vision, and as an employer of choice, we are dedicated to fostering a work environment where all faculty feel a sense of belonging, work toward a meaningful purpose, and have the resources, connections, and support to be most effective, grow and advance their careers, and thrive in their personal and professional lives.

In pursuit of continuous improvement of the academic experience, the Office of the Provost offers faculty the opportunity to provide feedback related to job satisfaction through the COACHE survey. This survey is conducted as part of a national research program called the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, which is operated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In early February 2025,  full-time faculty who have worked at the University of Arkansas for three years or more will receive a unique survey link in an email from COACHE. The survey link will remain active until early April, with the Office for Faculty Affairs monitoring the response rate and contacting units to encourage faculty participation. The COACHE survey is completely confidential and will be administered through the COACHE project team at Harvard. The COACHE team will share our survey results this summer.

The 2025 COACHE survey will allow the University of Arkansas to evaluate faculty job satisfaction as compared to our peer institutions. Information gained from this survey will be used to help the university retain and attract the best faculty talent, increase the overall satisfaction of current faculty and reinforce the university’s strategic priority of enhancing its status as an employer of choice.

 

 

How to Take the Survey

In February 2025, full-time faculty who have been with the unviersity for three years or more will receive an email from coachefaculty@abtsurvey.com with a link to take the survey.

Past Survey Results

View results from past COACHE faculty job satisfaction surveys.

 

More Information

Learn more about the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) is a national effort coordinated through the Harvard Graduate School of Education to gather data and feedback on areas of institutional strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. In other words, COACHE is a survey to understand faculty satisfaction.

Data is compared to peer cohorts. The COACHE team performs the statistical analysis and provides a report and aggregate data to the University of Arkansas' Office of Strategic Analytics & Insights.

The University of Arkansas is committed to fostering a work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, works toward a meaningful purpose, and has the data, resources, connections and foundation of support to be most effective, grow and advance their careers, and thrive in their personal and professional lives. This survey will assist with this goal by providing data on job satisfaction of full-time tenured, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty, who have been employed at the university for at least three years. Participation is voluntary but encouraged.

The survey provides us with a valuable opportunity to hear directly from our faculty and, most importantly, to ensure that faculty voices are at the center of shaping the future of the University of Arkansas. As we continue our commitment to being an employer of choice, this survey is an essential tool for understanding the faculty experience on our campus.

Administered by an independent research team from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, the COACHE survey allows us to benchmark our progress against peer institutions and gain meaningful insights into areas where we excel and where improvements are needed.

Your participation is critical. The feedback you provide will help us identify actionable priorities to enhance the working environment, strengthen faculty support, and foster a culture of collaboration and growth. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that the U of A continues to be a great place to work, teach and thrive.

All full-time tenured, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty, who have been employed at the university for at least three years, are eligible to participate in the COACHE survey. Participation is voluntary but encouraged.
Per COACHE website: “Confidentiality and anonymity are assured in all COACHE analyses and reports. Your name and email addresses are retained solely for the sake of COACHE research, including reminding respondents to begin or to complete their survey and for limited and IRB-approved follow-up studies. When we submit the survey report to your institution, only the aggregate data is shown in the report. No identifiers are matched to reported responses, and no disaggregated data will be presented for any subgroup with fewer than five respondents.”
Individual responses to data will not be provided. However, reports on the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey will be provided to the campus community.

Please check your Inbox and Junk Folder for a message with subject line, "COACHE’s Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey at University of Arkansas."

If you have not received the link, please request a new one at any time by contacting coachefaculty@abtassoc.com.

The survey will close on April 7, 2025.