Ithaca College has registered to participate in the Great Colleges to Work For Survey process that will take place in March and April of 2010!Ithaca College has registered to participate in the Great Colleges to Work For Survey process that will take place in March and April of 2010!
Now in its third year, the Great Colleges program has quickly become the premiere recognition program in higher education. Loosely based on the popular Fortune magazine list, “100 Best Companies to Work For”, Great Colleges is designed to recognize institutions that are great places to work and to compile detailed benchmarking data about industry trends. Instead of ranking institutions in one big list like Fortune does, the Great Colleges program recognizes groups of colleges for specific best practices and policies, such as tenure clarity, collaborative governance, work/life balance and compensation and benefits.
At the end of March through the beginning of April, 400-600 randomly selected Ithaca College faculty and staff will be contacted to complete an on-line survey. The College will work with the survey administrator, ModernThink, to randomly select the faculty/staff who will receive an email solicitation. We will receive our organizational results in July of 2010. IC's results will not be released to the public unless we are recognized by The Chronicle for a practice of excellence. Because the program is also designed to help colleges improve as workplaces through the individual reports they receive, The Chronicle names only those institutions that scored well enough to be recognized in any category. The overall results of the survey will be showcased in The Chronicle's Academic Workplace Supplement in July 2010. Recognized institutions will benefit from positive publicity which will enhance morale and boost recruitment and retention efforts.
The assessment consists of two parts: The ModernThink Institution Questionnaire© (“IQ”) which is essentially an audit of policies and management practices and the ModernThink Higher Education Insight Survey© which is an engagement survey specifically geared towards faculty and staff and administered to a random sample of Faculty, Administrators and Staff. All institutions must complete both parts of the assessment to be considered for the list of Great Colleges.
Further communication regarding Ithaca College's efforts will be made available in the coming weeks. For specific questions, please contact Mark Coldren in the Office of Human Resources at x-3853 or mcoldren@ithaca.edu. More information on the Great Colleges to Work For process can be found on their web site at http://chroniclegreatcolleges.com/index.php.
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