The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education named Duke University as one of 32 member colleges and universities with the highest levels of pre-tenure faculty job satisfaction.
Duke was deemed exceptional in four out of eight categories along with Brown, CUNY's Lehman College and Queens College. The University of Iowa was the only institution deemed exceptional in five categories. While five more institutions were outstanding in three categories.
The 160-member consortium based at Harvard's Graduate School of Education released this report Nov. 15 after collecting data from COACHE's Tenure—Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey.
The annual assessment considers the benchmark dimensions used in COACHE's institutional reports: tenure practices; the clarity of institutional expectations for tenure; the nature of faculty work overall— in research and teaching; work and home balance and supports; climate, culture, and collegiality and global satisfaction, according to a COACH news release.
"This isn't a beauty contest with dozens of runners-up, nor are we in the rankings business," COACHE Director Kiernan Mathews said in the news release. "Academic leaders at our member institutions request these lists so that they can know to whom to turn about doing something or several things right in retaining faculty."
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