Childcare Needs Assessment  (PDF 1.6 MB)

This survey was conducted in May, 2007 with the goal of obtaining detailed perspectives of current faculty with children age 5 and under on their child care experiences, needs, and priorities. 

Pipeline Report   (Full Pipeline Report PDF 2.4 MB), (Pipeline Report Summary PDF 180 KB)

The goal of the Pipeline Project, part of the Stanford Campus Diversity Initiative funded by a grant from the James W. Irvine Foundation, is to analyze the factors that affect academic career choices, particularly of underrepresented minorities and women, with the goal to increase faculty diversity.

COACHE   PDFs: (COACHE Report 3.51 MB), (Executive Summary 1.26 MB), (Academic Areas 123 KB)

Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), based at Harvard University, is a joint initiative to improve the quality of tenure-track faculty work life. In the Fall of 2005 Stanford University participated in the COACHE survey and received a custom profile of its results. Available here is the full report on the Tenure-Track Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, Institutional Report: Stanford University 2005-2006. Specific sections are available for download and include the Executive Summary and the Academic Areas findings, as well as, the full report.

The survey, organized around five themes: 1) tenure, 2) nature of work, 3) policies and practices, 4) climate culture, and collegiality; and 5) global satisfaction, provides an institutional profile by which our institution received ratings within each cluster.

PACSWF  PDFs: (Press Release 52 KB),  (PACSWF Report 248 KB)   (Appendices 5.2 MB)

Provost's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Faculty (PACSWF), published May 27, 2004. A three-year study comparing women and men faculty members at Stanford shows no significant gender differences for the university as a whole in measures of overall satisfaction or in non-salary compensation and support in most parts of the university. The study was conducted by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Faculty, chaired by Deborah Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law.