COACHE Survey Results 2020

A Message From Provost Lori Gonzalez

I invite you to explore results from the University of Louisville’s 2020 participation in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) faculty satisfaction survey.  Administered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the COACHE survey is designed solely to determine the job satisfaction of our faculty compared to faculty at peer institutions.  Our participation in the survey was made possible through our National Science Foundation ADVANCE Adaptation project called Advancement through Healthy Empowerment, Networking, and Awareness (ATHENA).  ATHENA is aimed at improving equity among faculty, with a particular focus at STEM disciplines where systemic equity barriers tend to be most difficult to break, in particular for women and underrepresented minorities.

One of my overarching priorities as provost is to foster a workplace that values our faculty, students, and staff. There is no doubt that the pressures of an academic career are significant – especially during periods of constraint such as those as we have experienced in recent times. Nonetheless, it is important that we continuously strive to do more to support our community and, periodically, assess how we are performing and what further might be done at the department, division, or university-wide level.  The views of our faculty are important as we seek to attract and retain the best and brightest scholars and teachers, increase the satisfaction of all faculty, and to make the University of Louisville a great place to work.

We welcome this opportunity to learn from an independent, research-driven, comparative study. I look forward to working with you to reflect on these results and to develop and implement plans to realize the aspirations of the University of Louisville to be a great place to work.

Survey Documents

Additional Documents

Provost Letter to Faculty - October 28, 2020