Part-time review - Anonymous employee Frederick Community College Employee Review

Great atmosphere. Great culture. Great people.

Full time positions are hard to come by.

Most of the staff care a lot about the students and go above and beyond their normal responsibility level.

Raises are always given across the board, generally up to a 3% COLA. But the health insurance goes up at the same time so you don't see much, if any, of the COLA. Some lose pay, since the insurance premium is a flat amount for everyone instead of being a percentage of your salary. There are no other raises unless someone above you leaves and you apply to replace them. Performance evaluations mean nothing, so the people who do just enough to keep from being fired will get the same treatment as the high-performer with glowing reviews. The insurance also has a $300/year deductible that the employee must pay (they cover $3000 of the $3,300 deductible by giving it to you on an HSA card. But this year it didn't fully cover it like previous years. Maybe also google "FCC president Burmaster" and watch the YouTube where the faculty issued a vote of no-confidence and publicly called for her resignation. The board punished her by extending her contract an extra year. That'll teach her! ...