About the Partners
The Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Participants in the Great Colleges to Work For program are recognized in the Academic Workplace supplement published in a July issue of The Chronicle. Learn more at Chronicle.com. ModernThink LLC As a research and consulting leader in workplace issues, ModernThink has supported other “Best Place to Work” initiatives including: - Determining over 50 city, state, and regional “Best Place to Work” lists
- Surveying 70,000 employees nationwide for the AARP “Best Employers for Workers Over 50 Program”
- Working with the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association on a workplace initiative for law firms
Through our survey and consulting work, we help leaders identify strengths, eliminate barriers to employee engagement, and build better workplaces. Learn more at http://www.modernthink.com/.
Program Funding
Founded in 2008, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Great Colleges program is designed to recognize institutions of higher education that have successfully created great places to work. Great Colleges also provides key metrics, benchmark data and best practices regarding workplace quality within colleges and universities nationwide, including both 2-year and 4-year schools. In designing the program, its co-founders, The Chronicle of Higher Education and ModernThink LLC, the survey, research and analysis partner, wanted to ensure that participation would be free for any institution that wanted to avail itself of the program’s many benefits. Accordingly, Great Colleges has been underwritten by the Chronicle of Higher Education and sustained through financial and human capital contributions of both the Chronicle and ModernThink. The program would not be possible without this critical support. The Chronicle and ModernThink recoup their investments in part through the sale of additional reports and services. The purchase of reports or consulting services from ModernThink has no bearing on which institutions are recognized in the program. As with any special section, the Chronicle also makes money through the sale of reprints of and advertising in the Academic Workplace Supplement. From time to time, the program or parts of it may have corporate sponsors. Any funding obtained from sponsors helps defray the costs of program administration. In exchange, such sponsors may be given some promotional opportunities including but not limited to print ads in the Chronicle, banner ads on the Chronicle Web site and/or a limited communication opportunity with Great Colleges participants. Sponsors are not privy to any confidential information submitted by an institution and are not provided any survey responses. Additionally, sponsors have no bearing on which institutions are recognized in the program.
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