LACs With the Happiest Professors

Parents Forum
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<p>Bowdoin College</p>

<p>Hendrix College</p>

<p>Kenyon College</p>

<p>Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York</p>

<p>Mount Holyoke College</p>

<p>Ohio Wesleyan University</p>

<p>St. Olaf College</p>

<p>Trinity College</p>

<p>Wellesley College</p>

<p>Wesleyan University</p>

<p><a href=“http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic853043.files/COACHE_ExemplarReport_20101115.pdf[/url]”>http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic853043.files/COACHE_ExemplarReport_20101115.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>As far as I can tell, this study did not consider quality of students as a criterion when assessing happiness of professors.</p>

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<p>^^it’s under the “nature of work (teaching)” portion, if you look at the definitions section (p.4), it includes “quality of undergraduate students” as well as graduate students.</p>

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<p>not many participant colleges</p>

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<p>How many should there be?</p>

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<p>this is not a survey for all faculty members. It’s only about assistant professors that are on a tenure track (not tenured yet).</p>

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<p>True. But, then again, who would be the least likely to be happy, someone with tenure or someone without it?</p>

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<p>My impression was that it is so hard to find a tenure track position that anyone finding one would be pretty happy to have it.</p>

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<p>While I am very happy to see St. Olaf on this list, I think it is a big leap from this study’s mention of 10 LACs (out of 38 surveyed) to “LACs with the Happiest Professors”.</p>

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<p>If you think that’s a leap, imagine a “Universities with the Happiest Professors” thread based on the same survey:
Auburn University</p>

<p>Brown University</p>

<p>Dartmouth College</p>

<p>Duke University</p>

<p>Lehigh University</p>

<p>North Carolina State University</p>

<p>North Dakota State University</p>

<p>University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa</p>

<p>University of Chicago</p>

<p>University of Connecticut</p>

<p>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p>

<p>University of Iowa</p>

<p>University of Kansas</p>

<p>University of Notre Dame</p>

<p>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>