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What is the best part of working at the company?
The engagement with students and the community outside of work politics. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Administration does not communicate, and will blindside you with information that is the exact opposite of what you were told previously.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is stressful and tense. People are scared to talk for fear of retaliation. The culture is self-serving and toxic.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Typical day consists of struggling to make ends meet due to lack of budget, equipment and clean work conditions. Outside of Admin building, facilities are falling apart. If you want to get your job done, you usually have to do it without support from superiors.

Pay is ridiculously low. Insurance does not cover anything and is extremely expensive, no insurance providers will even bid them other than Cigna. 

They do not value their employees at all, I have seen them do horrible things to employees. 

Senior leadership actually wants all the departments to remain in silo's.  They encourage animosity, distrust, and no communication. 

Seriously, run away from this dumpster fire. There are hardly any students enrolled for Fall 2024 so raises are going to be sparce if at all. 

However, if you desperately need a job the students are awesome and so are the coworkers (excluding senior staff).

The students are amazing and most of the staff and faculty truly care and are seeking ways to improve the lives and outcomes of the students.

Senior Leadership is terrible.  They don't listen to subject matter experts within the organization.  If the idea doesn't come from the top, it's not going to be listened to or implemented.

There is zero communication.  You are given no notice and major projects or tasks and then administration changes course and doesn't tell you.  Major initiatives are implemented with no warning or heads-up to other who might be affected and need to work to develop new options or ways of during their job.

The best this for the college would be a change of leadership at the top, at least the President and the VPAA.

Typical work day, if they weren't asking me to come in early to do custodial work, included doing the trash run, trying to talk them out of removing trees and plants that had been a part of the campus for years, installing annual plantings where perennials should be and having no overall campus landscape plan, and compensation so poor that there was no incentive to do anything.

Being a Resident Assistant was a full time job and required great communication skills because you worked on a team of 4-7 people. You were there for your residents, not for yourself, because you were the one person your residents could always go to if they were having a problem or even just needed someone to talk to. Resident Assistants were also the first responders in the event of an emergency on campus.

A great place to work. They make you feel like part of a family. they seem to really care about you inside and outside of work. The college as a whole is just a place that makes you feel like you are a part of something that is empowering. the benefits are better than average and the college is really good about keeping everyone informed and included in all aspects. Everyone is encouraged to advance their position if they want and accommidated  with advice and training if needed.

Asked to do every job but your own with no documentation, no training, no direction, no help from managers, figure it out seems to be the solution.  Every department seems to have a scapegoat and when they leave, they pick a new one. The turn over rate is bismal, whole departments quit at once, with no plan to fill those roles. They do not care about their employees. I reevaluate if the stress is worth it every day.

Leaders change strategic priorities and direction constantly so no one knows what they are doing or why. Then employees are blamed because things aren’t going well. It’s a great college with very talented staff and students, but it’s not likely to survive with the current president and provost driving it off of a cliff and hemorrhaging money and talent. 

The administration is lost in the past, while they have added a Nursing program, something they were told years ago to do, they are still lost in how to add to the student population to gain the full value of what they could offer young women to truly empower them.  Instead, they create many weak students who are reliant on getting what they want rather than working for what they want.

This college is filled with good caring people, however it suffers from a lack of organization, structure and communication.  Things change constantly and you are continually frustrated by bad process.  Expectations are constantly changing and there is a lack of genuine appreciation for talent, expertise and hard work by the upper administration.  

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Director of security 1 salary reported	$92,500 per year
Assistant professor 3 salaries reported	$60,333 per year
Admission counselor 3 salaries reported	$35,667 per year
Student ambassador 1 salary reported	$14.50 per hour
Security officer 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour

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