department assistant

development director

project assistant

philanthropy manager

human resources specialist

The University Of Tulsa

The University is overrun with too much management and too many people that have been here so long, that they are of the opinion that they don’t need to push themselves for anything.
Financial Aid office and Admissions are HANDS DOWN the worst, with Financial Aid taking First Place! That Director is the worst about creating a hostile environment with her giving the BIGGEST smile to management and being so accommodating, by then talks trash about them and most head figures at TU.
Admissions has so much turnover and accepts no accountability for anything. A department nightmare.
A tremendous benefit at TU is the tuition benefit. However, it depends on who you work for if a person’s child is accepted and if so, the higher up you or your boss are, the better housing you get! It’s a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” system. The MOST glaring of this was through the Admin Assistant to a very tall, impeccably dressed African American member of management. His Admin’s daughter was accepted, given two bed housing by herself, in the newest facility.
Then there was the Dean of Student Affairs who awarded thousands and thousands of dollars to her husband’s business AND made deals for her daughter to receive three paid positions at TU, one of which was a prestigious position from grant money contributed by an oil and gas company.
There is enough deceit and unethical practices going on here that your head will continually spin from the day you start until the day you leave!!

Universities have only a slow and slower speed  when it relates to change. Possibly due to not wanting to make a mistake. If you learn to roll with the flow it makes life easier. Most days are preparing for a course/workshop I'm facilitating. Teach courses in  several areas for staff, 3-4 hours per session. Sending reminders to participants about a class they enrolled in. Updating with revisions online OSHA training's. Overseeing equipment related to the CPR/AED. Challenging to work with such a broad range of staff having no higher education or several degrees.  

Everyone who is on staff feels they have taken on several additional jobs that are expected to be produced within an 8 hour day. Stressful at times. 

Most coworkers are pleasant and some are more pro-active in their job task than others. Managers tend to need a refresher course in communication and valuing staff. Faculty are interesting to know, graduate students are manipulative and undergrads are wide-eyed and young. 

A university is a very stimulating environment that so many opportunities to engage in new ideas and information avail themselves.

The university itself has excellent faculty and superb facilities. Working with the students is a highlight. The benefits overall for staff are quite good, and you usually have the benefit of well-educated, interesting, and caring colleagues. Unfortunately, the pay is below industry standards and the only way to get a raise is to somehow obtain a new title (and added job responsibilities) or to find a new position on campus that offers a (typically marginal) pay increase. Administration has frozen all pay raises for over four years outside of faculty positions, despite significant cost of living increases due to inflation. Expect to go through mandated annual exercises in "performance evaluation" that lead to no notable change regardless of outcome. Administration mostly just cares about image and the continually falling ranking and pours all money and attention into that. Never mind that the institutional vision seems rudderless.

A typical day at work  enjoying the staff,enjoying my duties as a Maintenance leader changing light bulbs,doing the scheduling for 6 Custodial staff,distrubting work,ordering supplies for three buildings,doing mailrun,distrubuting mail to staff mail boxes,getting setup ready for event to go on,maintained three buildings,helpedcustodial when needed,helped my supervisor with contractors and various things that needed to be do,I worked closely with two events coordintors to make events successful,helped get cleints and vendors up to setup for event,the hardest part of my job was climbing a latter but it got easier each day I climbed,the most enjoyable was being at work at the museum and the great staff members I worked with,i love being happy and I am not afraid of learning.

First go in check to see if any files need to be filed and see if Jane had a list of files that need to be pulled so she could review them. Make copies of everything on shelf that she needed copies made. Then go to class come back and fax papers. Answer phone if everything is done that she has laid out to be done. I would see there was anything that see need done right away. If reports needed type I would type them I would sort papers out. I keep everything running smoothly. I keep everything done and done on time so she would not have make sure I something to or tell what to do. She could depend on me getting my work done. I was the only work-study to catch all her filling up and keep it caught up. She wanted me to stay and work for her.

This was only a summer job that my professor recruited me for. I made my own schedule and came in when I was not in class. I participated in 2 collision tests in Tennessee for the Annual Highway Patrol Collision Conference, Here, we analyzed dynamic data obtained using digital data acquisition equipment (DAQ, GPS, Motion-detection). Additionally, my partner and I constructed an electrically triggered auxiliary brake system. The goal of this project was to generate dynamic data (angular motion) based on differential wheel-speeds.

I learned a lot of hands-on electric/electronic work (i.e. wiring, electronic components). I learned how to analyze and simulate crash-data. The most enjoyable part of the job was learning all this interesting new material.

Leadership was unstable, especially at the end of my career. Poor management of finances over an extended period of time, then the pandemic sent the university into financial ruin. The mismanagement of the institution by the interim president did nothing to remedy the situation. Student enrollment is down, morale among employees is awful, and so is the university's reputation within the community. It used to be a highly regarded university. Now, not so much. Wait a few years before even considering employment here.

I am a volunteer in this lab. A typical work day includes reviewing revising manuscripts that will be sent off for publication. I am also responsible for doing the literature reviews for the construction of these manuscripts. I often conduct data collection with human participants and the subsequent data entry. That data is analyzed in order to make implications for the studies being conducted. On occasion, I have also taught lessons to students on time management.

• Responsible for gathering data for acoustic sand detectors for a variety of multiphase flow conditions
• Experience usage of large experimental facility equipment including compressors, pumps, and flow meters to generate multiphase
flow conditions
• Determined relations between acoustic sand monitor signal and sand rate for a broad range of operating conditions

I collect data in days which I did not have classes. Process information, I perform multiphase flow test with flow of sand. I taught classes for some professors (teaching assistant)

If you get a job with TU be prepared to put up with the cliques that exist in every department. If you don't fit in, you'll be ostracized and practically pushed out of your position. 
The pay is abysmal for a private university that often cites itself as the "Harvard of south". I worked at TU for nearly 4 years and only received a raised in my last year working there.
The structure is incredibly top heavy at TU which leads to communication problems. This often lead to entire roles and job processes being changed but the people they affect aren't told until the last minute.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Department assistant 1 salary reported	$15.25 per hour
Development director 1 salary reported	$72,500 per year
Project assistant 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Philanthropy manager 2 salaries reported	$53,750 per year
Human resources specialist 2 salaries reported	$47,126 per year

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