July 22, 2010
In the 2010 Great Colleges to Work For survey, about 43,000 faculty members, staff, and administrators evaluated their institutions. They responded to 60 statements about their workplace, telling us how strongly they agreed or disagreed with them. Their answers to the following 6 questions highlight some of the reasons that people, in general, find their colleges to be good workplaces.
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Comments
1. reinking - July 29, 2010 at 09:46 am
Where can we go to find out what institutions were in the sample? If that info is available it hasn't been easy for me to find.
2. robertkase51 - July 29, 2010 at 09:48 am
No real surprises here.
3. prof_truthteller - July 29, 2010 at 11:17 am
Yeah, the big surprise is at how FEW places these obvious, no-brainer ways to manage staff and run an institution are actually being implemented.
4. charlesr - July 29, 2010 at 01:28 pm
It would be more enlightening to see which questins had the most variation among the institutions ranked.
5. philosophy5 - July 31, 2010 at 06:06 pm
How odd! These stats paint a surreal picture of middle management and senior-level administrators. In fact, the combined differentiation between the first two rating categories and last two leaves plenty room to wonder about the study design.