Retention and Negotiation

Research on the professoriate confirms: the academy's culture of requiring faculty to seek external offers in order to renegotiate the terms of their employment actually pushes them toward accepting positions elsewhere. Most literature on faculty departure, like this COACHE survey of faculty at your institution, informs our understanding of the factors influencing faculty members' intent to leave, rather than reasons for actually leaving. While the COACHE Faculty Retention & Exit Survey fills that gap, a survey of faculty at your institution can still shed light on the differences between faculty groups on your campus and your differences in the faculty labor market. This module of the COACHE Survey captures (a) what faculty most wish to change about the nature of their employment (and whether those wishes differ by gender, rank, tenure status, etc.); and the extent to which your institution is, in the next five years, likely to lose or push away pre-tenure or tenured faculty.