Global Considerations: Worst Aspects

Faculty are also asked to identify the two worst aspects of working at your institution. The worst aspects can be particularly helpful in narrowing down your priorities, especially when a review of your Benchmarks suggests many concerns to address: when everything needs fixing, we tend to fix nothing. In the CAO Report, these worst aspects are a heat map of your institution's competitive threats. The most frequently cited responses at your institution are highlighted in red.

 
Overall
Pre-tenure
Associate
Women
FOC
Quality of colleagues
2%
0%
1%
2%
3%
Support of colleagues
2%
0%
1%
2%
0%
Opportunities to collaborate with colleagues
1%
3%
1%
1%
2%
Quality of graduate students
5%
3%
6%
4%
1%
Quality of undergraduate students
5%
0%
3%
5%
8%
Quality of facilities
4%
3%
4%
2%
3%
Compensation
37%
33%
38%
40%
39%
Lack of support for research/creative work
12%
19%
16%
10%
14%
Lack of support for teaching
5%
0%
2%
5%
7%
Lack of support for professional development
2%
0%
2%
2%
3%
Lack of assistance for grant proposals
3%
0%
8%
2%
5%
Childcare policies
1%
3%
1%
1%
0%
Spousal/partner hiring program
1%
6%
1%
2%
1%
Lack of diversity
3%
3%
2%
4%
5%
Absence of others like me
1%
3%
1%
1%
3%
My sense of "fit" here
1%
0%
3%
1%
1%
Geographic location
4%
8%
4%
4%
1%
Commute
3%
3%
2%
2%
2%
Cost of living
7%
8%
4%
9%
3%
Too much service/too many assignments
9%
17%
11%
11%
6%
Teaching load
10%
14%
11%
11%
9%
Unrelenting pressure to perform
7%
17%
6%
8%
6%
Academic freedom
10%
14%
16%
8%
15%
Tenure/promotion clarity or requirements
4%
17%
5%
3%
1%
Quality of leadership
21%
8%
18%
16%
19%
There are no positive aspects
2%
0%
1%
1%
3%
Decline to answer
4%
6%
1%
4%
9%
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