How Satisfied with their Jobs are Junior Faculty?

Tenure and Expectations:

• JF have a much better understanding of the tenure process than they do of tenure expectations
• public institutions tend to be clearer about the tenure process, standards, and evidence than do private institutions
• JF think the expectations for them as teachers are more reasonable than the expectations for them as scholars
• public institutions tend to be clearer about their expectations regarding scholarship and campus citizenship than do private institutions
• JF at public institutions think that the expectations placed on them are more reasonable than do JF at private institutions
• JF of color think that expectations are less reasonable than do their white colleageus

Job Satisfaction:

• JF, on the whole, are somewhat unsatisfied with their ability to balance their work and home lives (but this is especially true of female JF)
• in fact, the above and support in having and raising children are the only place that I can see where JF are on the whole dissatisfied!
• JF get the greatest satisfaction from teaching, and the least satisfaction from research
• JF at public institutions think they are better able to balance their work and home lives than do their colleagues at private institutions
• JF at private institutions are significantly more satisfied with their institutions as a place to work than are JF at public institutions 
• JF at colleges are significantly more satisfied with their institutions as a place to work than are JF at universities
• JF at private institutions are more satisfied with their teaching and research than are JF at public institutions
• JF at private institutions are more satisfied with the intellectual vitality of senior faculty than are JF at public colleges, but
• JF at private institutions are less satisfied with the amount of personal interaction they have with other JF than are JF at public institutions
• JF of color think that JF are treated less fairly by their departments than do their white colleagues
• JF at universities are less satisfied with various aspects of the culture and climate than are JF at colleges

Importances:

• JF think that the most important policies for their success are limitations on teaching (duh!) and travel/research funds
• JF of color think that policies are significantly more imporant for their success than do their white colleagues
• travel funds and research leave are more important to college JF than they are to JF at universities

Policies:

• JF at public institutions think that policies are less effective than do their colleagues at private institutions
• JF of color think policies supporting the having and raising of children are less effective than do their white colleagues
• JF at private institutions think that policies supporting the having and rasing of children are more effective than do JF at public institutions
• JF at colleges think that policies supporting the having and rasing of children are more effective than do JF at universities

Compensation:

• JF at public institutions are significantly less satisfied with their compensation than are JF at private institutions (not too surprising) 
• JF at universities are significantly less satisfied with their compensation than are JF at colleges (I was somewhat surprised by this)

Gender Imbalances:

• female JF are much less clear about process, standards, and evidence involved in earning tenure than their male colleagues
• female JF are significanlty less clear about expectations regarding their performance as scholars than their male colleageus
• female JF think that many expectations are significantly less reasonable than do their male colleagues
• female JF are less satisfied with teaching, research, and how they spend their time than are their male colleagues
• female JF are less satisfied with their departments as a place to work than are their male colleagues
• femal JF think that policies are significanlty more important for their success than do their male colleagues
• male JF think that policies are less effective than do their female colleagues
• female JF think that JF are treated less fairly by their departments than do their male colleagues