assistant professor

program coordinator

program manager

academic advisor

research assistant

University Of Cincinnati

On a typical day you will change mostly Rodent cages, and care for your assigned rooms. You will also be responsible for monitoring and reporting Animal health concerns to the Veterinary Technicians on site. 
You stock the rooms that contain animals and or are rooms for procedures on Laboratory animals with supplies such as Gloves, Gowns, Caging, Bonnets, Shoe covers and anything else the Laboratory staff needs to complete their jobs in that particular room. 
The tasks you do on a not so daily basis are Cleaning such as: Moping of room floors, dusting animal racks and other surfaces, whipeing down equipment to ensure cleanliness and optimum function of said equipment, documenting water pressures of our resirc room(which supplies all of the automatic water to the animals racks that dont need water bottles), receiving of new animals into your assigned rooms for Scientists to utilize, and other various tasks pertaining to the over all condition of the animal facility in the areas you are assigned to(which could be 1 to 12 rooms out of dozens of rooms in our vivarium).
You also are responsible for Sanitizing these rooms once every 6 months, or sooner(depending on departmental need). 
Every so often a LAT is required to help their fellow employees in the form of Schedule reassignment forms. Which gives you ot of the normal tasks to do to help other employees which may be behind, out sick, or are being relocated for various reasons. This can take extra time in the day, but are always filled out with respect for what you are already assigned to do.
The best part of the job is the fact that you work with the same people every day and develop a good working relationship. The Benefits are also some of the best in Cincinnati.
The worse part is the potential for Allergies to pop up. You can work with rodents for over 10 years with no problem(and some people work their whole life with any issues), but then 1 day you can develop allergies that are very troublesome to performing your tasks. So be sure to wear your PPE to protect you from dander whenever possible.

While new management can be seen as a good thing, that’s not the case here.  Sr. Management is not as seasoned as previous Sr. Management teams and their lack of institutional/industry knowledge is driving the decisions they are currently making.  

Their first decision was to address the culture, because it was rumored it was in shambles.  A poll of the organization confirmed some issues - but the real issue was really a lack of confidence in the leadership team to lead and set the culture.  Leadership created “pop up groups” so that everyone who wanted a voice on what the organization can do better could have one.  The unfortunate part is, these groups have made recommendations to Sr. Management, but they have yet to implement anything.  Sr. Management has been discussing these recommendations for the past 9 months.  However, at our all staff meetings, we are told good work is coming from these groups and that the culture is better - though they haven’t directly polled the organization since.

Additionally, decisions are being pushed down into the organization and no checks/balances are in place to ensure adherence to policies and best practices.  VPs are making decisions that are borderline ethical to accept gifts to boost fundraising totals.  They are also stripping down policies to make it easier to accept certain gifts without the president’s approval or board oversight as currently required in policy. 

The organization leadership tells everyone they want to be an organization of choice.  However, there is an “Us vs. Them” division that has been created between front-line fundraisers and back office staff.  If you are a fundraiser; rules, practices and compensation are in your favor.  The rest of the staff is aware and is told to shoulder the brunt of the work, yet is not compensated favorably.

The organization is realizing the Sr. Management has been doing a smoke and mirror trick and is finally frustrated with the lack of actual leadership.

I am a dedicated, determined and enthusiastic team player at my work place. I start every workday by prioritizing all my tasks in order to adhere to the tight time deadlines as efficiently and effectively as possible. 
A lot of what I do in the lab is performing and collecting data from experiments. My typical approach to performing an experiment is to review scientific journals, develop protocols and then set up the equipment that I would use for the experiment. Safety is a priority and I ensure to follow specified health and safety procedure while working within laboratory conditions.
I report directly to my principal investigator who reviews my experimental procedure, my hypothesis and the data analysis. He often gives me guidance and encouragement and advice.  
When I record data from an experiment I use a variety of IT software programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel to analyze, process and store the data. Once this is completed I make a Microsoft Powerpoint to present and share my findings.
Being a good team player is very crucial and I really enjoy working as part of a team. In some of my research projects I had to rely on my teammates to play a significant role. For example, in my research of Bilirubin Oxidative products (BOXes) and their role in cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage, I had to rely on my teammates to make the Bilirubin, which I needed for my experiment to determine what causes BOXes to degrade.  

I enjoyed performing experiments and analyzing their results.  I did not find difficulty in doing the research, I believe you don’t get stressed out on what you enjoy doing. Though there might have been several failed trials I have always been very optimistic, and I eventually got the desired outcome.

I usually teach on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, although this coming fall, I will be teaching Tuesdays and Thursdays.  My colleagues, both full and part-time, are very congenial and my supervisors have always been supportive in adjusting my schedule to family needs and in helping me resolve occasional conflicts with students (such as complaints regarding a grade).  The most enjoyable aspect of my job is the opportunity to work with students of various ages and backgrounds, from high school students taking college classes to older adults who are returning to school.  It's amazing how well these different groups of learners get along and what they learn from one another!  Most of the students, both young and old, seem enthused and glad to be at the college.  I guess the hardest part of my job is grading papers: It's necessary to be both critical and encouraging and to make sure that I grade fairly.  (I've learned that I cannot grade papers when I'm tired or stressed because I tend to miss problems that I would not overlook if I were more rested. This might result in a higher grade for some students, but those whose papers I read under better circumstances may receive lower marks!) 

In addition to teaching English, I've had the opportunity to teach some classes in Latin.  I love this"'dead" language and was disappointed that because of falling enrollment, Clermont did not go offer it this year.  Most of my former Latin students seemed interested in the course, probably because it was an elective.  Overall, my years at Clermont have been very happy.

This review is specifically for Hoxworth Blood Center. Each department is different so an individual working in one area could have a completely different experience than someone in a different department. But, overall the the entire organization is stuck about 30-years in the past. They do a lot of the day-to-day activities on paper and via fax machine and whenever a progressive idea was proposed it was immediately and emphatically shut down. The Quality department was to worst. There were major management issues and an extreme lack of progress and cooperation. Each employee will only lookout for themselves and occasionally go out of their way to  sabotage their coworkers and, in the case of management, employees. If you can get past the lack of team spirit and antiquated technology the job is not bad; the other departments are great to work with and most of your time is spent on paperwork and in meetings.The salary is lower than one would expect for a similar job in the private sector, but as a state employee that is not uncommon, and the benefits really make up for it. Hourly employees are paid bi-weekly but salaried employees are only paid once per month (on the last business day of the month). They have really good medical insurance options and the cost was less than half of what my spouse's employer offers and had better coverage. Their retirement plan is really great; employees must contribute a mandatory 10% but then the company puts in another 15%. They also give you 4 weeks of vacation and 3 weeks of sick time every year which can roll over if unused.

The University of Cincinnati is the premier teaching and research hospital in the Cincinnati area. I was trained in psychiatry there and was on the faculty for several year, before beginning a private practice. 

I worked in several capacities at the University. The most difficult was perhaps in the psychiatric emergency room but that was due to a staffing shortage. 

I also worked in the Inpatient Service in several positions. Dr. Marshall Ginsburg was my supervisor and he was an excellent person and psychiatrist to work for. I learned a great deal about management of psychiatric units from him, as well as dealing with nursing staff. I also learned a great deal about treating the severely ill psychiatric patient from him. He was a pleasure to work for. 

The quality of co-workers varied, but by and large, the nursing staff was excellent as was the other ancillary staff. 

A typical day at work included "rounding" on patients already admitting and adjusting their treatment as necessary. It also included  a thorough evaluation of any patients admitted over the night shift, their stabilization, and the establishment of treatment plans. 

Then there was an intensive "process" meeting with the nursing staff to evaluate the status of patients. Treatment plans were updated and discharge planning was begun.

UCCI is a great place to work as a student worker or as someone interested in understanding the best practices when it comes to corrections. Everyone gets a role in ensuring the successes of the company, and other agencies UCCI is contracted with, all with the end goal of the reduction of recidivism and improvement of offender's lives upon reentry. I had a wide range of responsibilities and this enabled me to gather a large set of skills and talents from managing financial accounts to booking travel, to coordinating trainings to acting as a human resource, to editing curricula. While I had a few meetings with my managers to discuss our goals, a lot of the work is driven by myself. This job allowed me to understand the importance of communication when coordinating trainings, and the need for flexibility in the business world. I enjoyed getting to become close with my coworkers and the staff members, everyone is so friendly and genuine and I believe that is hard to come by these days.

I was a department-level administrator. I had supervisors from the department and from the college and often felt stuck in between. The leadership structure was confusing, with many administrators above me eventually reporting to a professor, but it usually didn't affect my work. 

I worked with more than five databases, none user-friendly and I had to more or less train myself. The bureaucracy needed to maintain thousands of students and faculty made communication between offices difficult and sometimes I didn't know where to direct questions. 

The amount of work was manageable, and I was proud of helping people achieve their academic goals. I was happy with my hourly pay and my relationships with the few coworkers I met in person. I found the vacation and sick days allotted to be more than enough and everyone was very accommodating with time off.

When I first started working in the molecular genetics laboratory, I was horrible at creating gels for electrophoresis. However, my supervisors supported me and after practice, I was eventually able to  give myself the title "gel-making guru". A typical day at work in the lab consists of making gels, cleaning equipment, autoclaving glassware, and mixing buffers for the researchers to use. Most of my co-workers were masters or doctoral students, and they were always conducting their own experiments. Because of this, there was never much interaction between them other than my supervisor who told me what needed to be done. the hardest part of the job was time management, as I was still an undergraduate taking classes. I was always able to come in at least twice a week, but I had to work around my classes and homework time. The most enjoyable part of the job was constantly being around science and learning about different chemicals and how experiments were run.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The different people you meet there are different races different religion and I enjoyed it

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Well they say they care for the people's they workers but they treat us like we're not human and throw people away like we trash the good workers that's why I feel right now that y'all have a real high turnover cuz y'all don't understand people properly or choose not to and that's not cool

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It was okay until they start bringing people in and want to start doing different stuff got rid of a whole bunch of good folks that work that that place

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I go in clock in go to my building start working and love running into the people that you clean up after a lot of them really is respectful and loving people you got a handful of them that's privilege I know they act like they privileged and I don't like that

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