Female and minority faculty members rated their institutions less positively as places for junior professors to work than did their male and white counterparts, according to a new report. Young professors said institutional policies designed to help them succeed were important, but they were less satisfied that those policies were effective. Women rated the policies as more effective than men did, and they, along with minority faculty members, rated those policies as more important to a successful career than men did. Those findings are the result of a recent survey from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (Coache) that questioned 6,773 tenure-track faculty members at 77 institutions. On average, none of the 16 policies or practices evaluated in the survey was rated even "fairly effective" by faculty members. On a 5-point scale, advice from informal mentors ranked as the most effective practice at 3.69, "suggesting much room for improvement," according to the report. In addition to rating institutional policy effectiveness, the survey examined tenure clarity and found that, over all, junior faculty members were most clear about the tenure process and least clear about tenure standards. Minority faculty members reported being as clear about tenure process as white faculty members were, but significantly clearer about tenure standards and their institutions' expectations for performance as scholars, teachers, advisers, colleagues, campus citizens, and members of the broader community. As in a similar study last year, female faculty members reported less clarity on all dimensions of tenure. Female faculty members also reported significantly less agreement with the statements regarding institutional support for having and raising children, and expressed a much lower level of satisfaction than male faculty members with their work-life balance.