Cathy A. Trower, Ph.D., a renowned national researcher on the changing generation of tenure-line faculty, will spent a day at the downtown Denver campus with faculty, administrators, and university leaders to examine CU’s changing faculty demographics in the context of her research on pre-tenure faculty, the quality of their work life, and their level of satisfaction with the workplace including climate, clarity of tenure and promotion processes and criteria, professional development opportunities, and the equity of policies and practices.

Dr. Trower currently leads Harvard’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE). The COACHE survey of 4,500 tenure-track faculty at 51 colleges and universities has revealed that, overall, climate, culture, and collegiality are more important to the success and satisfaction of early career faculty than compensation, tenure clarity, workload, and policy effectiveness.

COACHE discovered that the some of the key climate variables for junior faculty include: interest senior faculty take in their work, fairness with which they are evaluated, opportunities to collaborate with senior faculty, how well they seem to fit in their departments, sufficient professional and personal interaction with colleagues, and a sense of community in the department.

Click here to view Dr. Trower's power point presentation. To view the live web cast, select one of the sessions listed below:

Presentation and Discussion with CU-System Faculty Council and elected members of the four university Faculty Assemblies. Click here to view the web cast.

Public Presentation and Discussion w/ invitation to the media and statewide presidents, chancellors, and provosts. Click here to view the web cast.