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To derive the greatest impact and value from your institutional reports, you may wish to consider several optional on-site services. These include:
Survey customization
Your institution may add additional close-ended questions to the end of the COACHE survey for an additional fee of $1,500 for up to 10 questions. Appending questions allows you to utilize items from prior campus climate surveys, or to cover areas not addressed in our survey that you feel are important.
Your institution may add open-ended questions, also to the end of the survey, for an additional fee of $500 per block of 5. For open-ended questions, you will receive verbatim responses (stripped of identifiers if you have opted not to receive record-level data) on a CD with no coding or other analysis by COACHE. If you would like us to code and interpret the responses to these questions, we will provide an estimate of our costs, in the form of a proposal, for your consideration.
Keep in mind that you will receive a separate report and that you will not receive peer comparisons for any additional questions. Also, appending questions lengthens the time required to complete the survey, which may affect your response rate.
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On-site services
The following on-site services are available to participating institutions after they have received their COACHE report. Any campus visit requires a minimum charge for a half day (any combination of the following, up to 4 hours) or full day (all of the following), plus travel expenses. Travel time from Cambridge, Massachusetts, will also be a consideration.
Best practices presentation
A senior COACHE associate will speak on your campus about the best workplace practices at the best places to work, based on our extensive data base and field experience. This presentation and discussion provides you and your academic administrators with an extensive inventory of policies and practices, which have proven to be effective. 1 hour.
Faculty forum
The faculty forum uses information from the reports on your institution and your peers to stimulate an informed dialogue, to generate new ideas, and to galvanize a campus-wide commitment to improving the quality of work life for tenure-track, and, by extension, all full-time faculty. 1.5-2 hours.
Deans and department chair workshops
The workshop for academic administrators offers department chairs and deans a chance to see the life of junior faculty from the perspective of junior faculty. The workshop focuses specifically on practical, effective steps chairs and deans can take to create the best place for junior faculty to work. 3-4 hours.
A guided tour through your data
Because we will be producing and reviewing dozens of institutional reports, we bring a trained eye to analyzing and interpreting your data on its own and in the larger context of peer institutions. We can help you see what the data suggest about the nature of the challenges you face and appropriate responses for management. In short, we will work with you to read the "x-rays" that your data provide. 1.5-2 hours.
Peer group discussions
As interest warrants, we will hold annually, in conjunction with national conferences, a 2-3 hour discussion among representatives from COACHE member institutions. This will offer you a chance to compare experiences, practices, policies, and perspectives with peers, and even arrange a full sharing of data, upon mutual agreement, with similar institutions. We expect to hold these seminars coincident with the national meetings of associations such as the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Universities, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
Faculty Appointment Policy Archive on CD-ROM
Ideal for presidents, provosts, academic vice presidents, deans, chairs, faculty leaders, and others involved in the faculty appointment process, this CD-ROM contains faculty appointment policies from 250 four-year institutions across the US. Produced for the Harvard Project on Faculty Appointments, this archive is available free to COACHE members at their request.
For more information about these optional services, please contact the Collaborative at coache@gse.harvard.edu or 617-496-9348.
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