About the 2024 Survey
At Baylor, we continuously strive to support our faculty. One way we assess faculty needs and what further might be done at the department, division, or university-wide level is through the COACHE survey. In spring 2024, Baylor was one of many institutions to administer the COACHE survey of faculty job satisfaction. Survey results were returned to Baylor in fall 2024.
Survey findings are grouped into several themes, including the nature of the teaching, research, and service aspects of faculty work; the clarity of tenure and promotion processes; satisfaction with personal growth and support; levels of climate and collegiality; and other aspects of faculty work-life. Working groups, led by faculty members who serve on the 2024 COACHE Steering Committee, are engaging faculty across campus to examine our results and develop high-level recommendations for improvement.
2024 COACHE Survey Steering Committee
Co-Chairs:
- Gaynor Yancey, professor, social work
- Forest Kim, clinical associate professor, economics
Members:
- Marcelo Boccato Kuyumjian, lecturer, music
- Adrienne Cain Darough, clinical associate professor, assistant director, Institute for Oral History
- Holly Collins, associate professor, modern languages and cultures
- Tonya Davis, professor, educational psychology
- Christine Davis, clinical assistant professor, occupational therapy
- Kevin Dougherty, professor, sociology
- Ron Johnson, associate professor, history
- Jason MacGregor, associate professor, accounting
- Kevin Pinney, professor, chemistry
- Rodney Sturdivant, associate professor, statistical science
- Dennis Tucker, professor, Truett Seminary
- Nadine Welch, clinical associate professor, communication sciences and disorders
- Lenore Wright, professor, Honors College
Ex Officio:
- Karen Kemp, associate vice president for marketing and brand strategy
- Kathleen Morley, assistant vice provost, Office of Institutional Research
- DeAnna Toten Beard, vice provost for faculty affairs
COACHE 2024 Survey Results Next Steps
The COACHE Survey was administered at Baylor for a second time in spring 2024. Initial results were received in fall 2024 and reviewed by the Provost and COACHE Steering Committee to determine areas of progress and areas of opportunity to be further reviewed and discussed by Baylor faculty working groups.
Baylor faculty response to the survey surpassed the national average and exceeded the excellent response of Baylor faculty on the 2020 survey.
- 2024 COACHE National average response: 41%
- 2024 Baylor faculty response: 67%
- 2020 Baylor faculty response: 63%
Progress made as a result of the recommendations from the 2020 COACHE working groups was evident in the 2024 survey. Results showed 21 of 25 benchmarks of the 2024 survey were identified as areas of strength for Baylor. No benchmarks were noted in the category of “areas of concern,” but the University is committed to continuous improvement and identified three areas of opportunity around which faculty working groups have been formed to analyze the data and make recommendations.
- Interdisciplinary Work – Examining incentives for collaboration, funding models that support interdisciplinary work and the impact of interdisciplinary work on faculty evaluations.
- Promotion – Continuing to evaluate promotion policies and practices among all faculty while taking a closer look at the factors impacting female faculty and faculty of color.
- Research Support – Evaluating the pre-award and post-award processes so they might enhance the work of research faculty while ensuring compliance at all levels.
These three working groups are charged with assessing the results of their assigned topics. They will solicit and evaluate additional faculty input and generate high-level recommendations to the Provost for implementation by spring 2026.
Leaders of the 2024 COACHE working groups are:
Interdisciplinary Working Group
- Adrienne Cain Darough, MLS, CA (University Libraries, Museums, and the Press)
- Rodney X. Sturdivant, Ph.D. (Statistical Science, College of Arts & Sciences)
Promotion Working Group
- Nadine Welch, CCC-SLP (Communications Sciences and Disorders, Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences)
- W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., Ph.D. (Truett Seminary)
Research Support Working Group
- Ronald Angelo Johnson, Ph.D. (History, College of Arts & Sciences)
- Kevin G. Pinney, Ph.D. (Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts & Sciences)
The deadline for faculty to submit their names or the names of others for consideration as part of these working groups has passed.
2024 COACHE Report Preview
The 2024 COACHE Report Preview, a summary of responses from the survey administered at Baylor in spring 2024, was released in spring 2025 and is available at the link below.