In Spring 2019, BMCC and CUNY administered the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey for the second time. (The survey was first sent out in 2015. See below.) This site collects the survey results for BMCC and the college’s response to the information it received.
2019 Survey
The Report on the 2019 survey is available below. This report has the aggregated responses on all standard COACHE items.
Here are some highlights: Faculty response rates were higher this year than in 2015, with 52% of the faculty surveyed responding.
The survey asks faculty to identify the top two (and only 2) best and worst aspects of working at BMCC. The top four in each category are shown below.
Three of the four best aspects are the same as in 2015 (quality of colleagues, geographic location, and diversity). “Quality of undergraduates” joins the other for the top four best aspects of working at BMCC.
The four leading responses about the worst aspects of working at BMCC are all the same as they were in 2015: teaching load, lack of support for research/creative work, too much service / too many assignments, and compensation.
Report Benchmarks
The survey report gathers questions into thematic areas and benchmarks the BMCC scores against two groups of colleges: five large urban community colleges in CUNY and SUNY, and the entire community college cohort that has administered the survey (mostly CUNY and SUNY colleges).
This is the chart showing our benchmark scores across research, service, and teaching, for example.
This is the key to understanding the benchmark charts.
The Preview Report does not include responses to the campus-specific questions that the college added to the survey. Those responses will be compiled by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Analytics. The BMCC questions were developed by the Steering Committee in Fall 2018. (See below for Steering Committee membership.)
The results of the entire survey will be analyzed by the Steering Committee, which will identify areas for further study and recommend actions to the college president. The results of the survey will also be integrated into the college’s strategic planning process. (More information on the strategic plan process, Designing for Success, can be found here.)
COACHE Steering Committee, 2018-2020:
Co-chairs
Eda Henao, Modern Languages
Christopher Shults, Dean, Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning
Jim Berg, Associate Dean of Faculty
Hollis Glaser, Speech, Communication, and Theater Arts
Kenneth Levinson, Academic Literacy and Linguistics
Catarina Mata, Science
Kathleen Offenholley, Math (PSC)
Claire Wladis, Math
Tuvi Voorhees, Academic Literacy and Linguistics
Greer McPhaden, Director, Faculty Appointments
Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Director, Research
Odelia Levy, Chief Diversity Officer
