Junior Faculty Job Satisfaction Table

The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education surveyed almost 7,000 tenure-track faculty members at 78 institutions on 12 work-life categories, dividing the institutions into liberal-arts colleges and universities. The following institutions had the highest mean scores in the 12 categories.

Tenure practices over all

Universities

Davidson College

Auburn U.

Kenyon College

Brown U.

Trinity College (Conn.)

California State U. at Fullerton

Fayetteville State U.

North Carolina State U.

Ohio State U.

U. of Kansas

U. of North Carolina at Pembroke

Tenure clarity

Universities

Davidson College

Brown U.

Kenyon College

California State Polytechnic U. at Pomona

Trinity College (Conn.)

California State U. at Fullerton

California State U. at San Marcos

Fayetteville State U.

North Dakota State U.

U. of Connecticut

Tenure reasonableness

Universities

Goucher College

Auburn U.

Wabash College

Brown U.

Fayetteville State U.

North Carolina State U.

Ohio State U.

U. of Kansas

U. of North Carolina at Pembroke

U. of North Carolina at Wilmington

U. of Virginia

Policy effectiveness over all

Universities

Denison U.

Auburn U.

Goucher College

Duke U.

Hamilton College (N.Y.)

North Dakota State U.

Kenyon College

Ohio State U.

Stanford U.

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

U. of Kansas

U. of Minnesota

U. of Notre Dame

Nature of work over all

Universities

Amherst College

Brown U.

Bowdoin College

Dartmouth College

Carleton College

Duke U.

College of the Holy Cross

Stanford U.

Davidson College

U. of Notre Dame

Goucher College

Nature of work: teaching

Universities

Bowdoin College

Brown U.

Carleton College

Dartmouth College

College of the Holy Cross

Duke U.

Davidson College

Harvard U.

Stanford U.

Nature of work: research

Universities

Bowdoin College

Brown U.

Denison U.

Dartmouth College

Duke U.

Stanford U.

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

U. of Notre Dame

Nature of work: support services

Universities

Bowdoin College

Brown U.

Davidson College

Dartmouth College

Indiana U. at Bloomington

Stanford U.

U. of Notre Dame

Work and family

Universities

Barnard College

Duke U.

Carleton College

Stanford U.

Hamilton College (N.Y.)

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

U. of North Carolina at Pembroke

Compensation

Universities

Bowdoin College

Dartmouth College

Carleton College

Duke U.

Macalester College

Stanford U.

U. of Connecticut

Climate/collegiality

Universities

Goucher College

Appalachian State U.

Kenyon College

California State U. at Fullerton

Trinity College (Conn.)

California State U. at San Marcos

Wabash College

U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Western Carolina U.

Global satisfaction

Universities

Kenyon College

Appalachian State U.

Trinity College (Conn.)

Brown U.

California State U. at San Marcos

Dartmouth College

Duke U.

Stanford U.

U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

U. of Minnesota

U. of Virginia

NOTE: This table lists, alphabetically, the two liberal-arts colleges, among 22, and the four universities, among 56, with the highest mean scores in each category. Institutions with scores within .05 of the second college or fourth university were also included. Only institutions that consented to be identified are listed.