Endorsements
The following organizations have endorsed the FACE on Faculty Study:
Advisory Board
Todd Benson
Executive Director and Principal Investigator, Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE)
“College and university leaders rely on faculty to teach students, improve our understanding of the world through scholarship, and serve our communities. We rely on faculty to do more, often with diminishing resources and support. FACE on Faculty will help us understand the careers and the working conditions of faculty so that we can create the environment for faculty to do their best work.”
Jackie Bichsel
Director of Research, College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR)
“Data show that many higher ed institutions are having difficulty retaining faculty talent. Comprehensive data from the point of view of all faculty, including tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty is important to understand the factors that underlie why faculty choose to leave or remain at an institution. We also need this data to understand the trends shaping the makeup of the future faculty workforce.”
Allison BrckaLorenz
Project Manager, Faculty Survey on Student Engagement (FSSE), Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University
“As the last collection of NSOPF data aged, scholars interested in studying faculty lost a great resource for putting our work into a larger context. Those of us that focus on understanding the instructional half of the teaching-and-learning process have very few large-scale resources for learning about our population of interest. The FACE project will provide us with a foundation for local studies of instructional staff and allow for more recognition of faculty voices that are not normally heard.”
Li Cai
Director, The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), University of California, Los Angeles
“The FACE project is poised to provide new and comprehensive national data on university faculty that will empower efforts toward achieving faculty diversity with solid evidence. It is also incredibly timely as American higher education undergoes one of the most significant transformations in recent decades.”
Valerie Conley
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Idaho State University
“This project is important because it seeks to fill a growing gap in our understanding of the changes in the professoriate across the United States. The knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for our nation’s success are increasingly complex. Yet, we know less and less about the individuals charged with helping students acquire it with each passing year. The FACE project will provide current information about who faculty are and the environments in which they work. The data collected will inform policy and practice decisions aimed at supporting faculty in different types of institutions and from across a range of disciplines.”
Kevin Eagan
Director, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
“The FACE Project lays the groundwork for once again collecting and analyzing critical national data on all types of faculty at all types of two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. These data will equip researchers, policymakers, and higher education leaders with timely information regarding persistent inequities in teaching and mentoring loads, salaries, and satisfaction levels by faculty rank, appointment status, and demographic identity groups. The project will be crucial to contributing to a number of new areas of inquiry for future generations of scholars.”
Kimberly Griffin
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Faculty Affairs, University of Maryland and Scholar of recruitment and retention of diverse faculty
“Faculty and their careers are diverse and dynamic. While faculty work is continuously evolving, our current understandings of their experiences and outcomes are limited by insufficient data and limited measures. FACE’s work is critical, and has the potential to provide scholars, leaders, and policymakers with critical insights that will better position us to equitably support and retain the next generation of faculty.”
AJ (Audrey) Jaeger
Executive Director, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, NC State University and Scholar of faculty at two-year institutions
“Faculty play an essential role on college and university campuses; yet, it has been nearly 20 years since we have had access to information about them. This void can be filled by the information and methods gained from the FACE project.”
Christine Keller
Executive Director and CEO, Association for Institutional Research
“For over two decades, the higher education community has lacked a key piece of data in their efforts to increase equitable student outcomes – a national, comprehensive data source on faculty, including their significant role in student learning and success. The FACE project (Understanding Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments in Service of Equity) aims to fill in that gap.
FACE will also provide a current understanding and insights in the changing landscape of academic employment, such as progress toward a more diverse and inclusive faculty and the impact of non-tenure track contracts. As someone who used a national faculty dataset (NSOPF) to complete her dissertation research on faculty salary equity, I know the important role of comprehensive faculty data for research, knowledge, decision-making, and policy.”
Hans-Joerg Tiede
Director of Research, American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
“A thorough understanding of the challenges that higher education faces nationally requires a complete picture of the status of the faculty. This project lays important groundwork to collect relevant, up-to-date information about today’s faculty.”