This preview is just a glimpse of what lies within your CAO Report -- a beginning, not the end.

The Report Preview is designed primarily to be downloaded (or printed) and shared. To export the preview to an easily-shareable format, click on All Pages at the left. When the page has finished loading, type Ctrl-P. We recommended using the dialog box to save the screen as a PDF file. Before printing or saving to PDF, select "More Settings", then turn on "Background graphics" and turn off "Headers and footers". If you wish to print a hard copy, you will receive more consistent results if you print from that PDF.

To access individual pages of the Preview, use any of the other links at the left.

You will find:

• your response rates, by subgroups, for you and for the institutions you selected as peers.
• which themes - or "benchmarks" - of the faculty experience might be your institution’s strengths and concerns.
• data visualizations that compare your results this year to your past results, to peers, and to a broader faculty labor market. The preview displays these comparisons for all faculty combined, for pre-tenure faculty, associate professors, women, and for faculty of color. (Additional subgroups are displayed in your Benchmarks at a Glance).
• selected findings of global satisfaction: the best and worst aspects of working at your institution, the themes that emerged from an open-ended question, and generally how your departments and the institution are rated as a place to work.

Finally, we offer advice for next steps - most pointedly, for practicing distributed leadership - and for questions you should be asking yourself to get a process of collaborative inquiry underway. These questions include:

• What, if anything, surprises you about these results? Which results confirm your perceptions of your institution?
• Based on these first few pages of analysis, what initial questions do you have about the results underlying them? What themes do you feel most warrant further scrutiny?
• Which strategic priorities, faculty affairs initiatives, or other important institutional activities do your COACHE areas of strength support? Which might the areas of concern bring into play?
• Which offices, governing bodies, and committees might relate to these findings? Consider, for example, a committee on the status of women/minorities, tenure and promotion committee, faculty governing body, center for teaching and learning, human resources, sponsored research, marketing and communications office...
• Write the names of at least five administrators, staff, or faculty—beyond your immediate COACHE team—whose work might be informed by these results. For example, if your results indicate dissatisfaction among faculty of color, you might consider including the Chief Diversity Officer. If faculty provide lower ratings on the Benchmarks relating to shared governance, the Faculty Senate (or equivalent) might be constructively engaged in the next steps.
• In what venues or through what channels might you share the results with them? Consider that the most effective strategies for engaging the results are those that pull faculty into a discussion rather than those that push data out.
• Among the offices and individuals noted in the prior prompt, which might be allies? Which might feel threatened by the COACHE results? How will their recommendations be received and considered?
• What other information or data may help inform their interpretations of the COACHE report?