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Stay VERY Far Away From Here! - Associate Professor Indiana State University Employee Review

2.0
May 31, 2017
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Pros

Pay is decent for the region, but grossly underpaid for faculty in comparable institutions across the country.

Cons

One of the most back-stabbing, cut-throat, ill-managed and administered, racist, segregated, and sexist campuses I've ever worked for in my 15+ year history in academia. The in-fighting, politics, and cruelty between faculty, supposed "colleagues," administrators, and unnecessary drama makes this place easily one of the most backward schools I've ever worked or attended. They certainly pay lip service to diversity, inclusion, fairness, etc, but in reality, those professing to have your best interests in mind are precisely those who will slit your throat at the first opportunity. Only the truly mediocre and desperate stay at this institution. Faculty loathe students and frequently bash them to one another, and even online, in violation of FERPA, which doesn't appear to be a cause for concern for the administrators.

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Cons

Incompetent leadership in desperate need of a being cleaned-out. From the CIO all the way down to management, so many need fired that it's almost laughable that so many of these people have maintained employment for as long as they have. Remote favoritism, co-worker harassment, shared office keys, pipes that burst and offices that have radon is just some of the problems this place has, which gets used as leverage to relocate entire wings of staff into equally-pathetic accommodations regardless of whether anyone approves of the moves. There's no planning, no consideration for anyone except whoever a higher bidder might be. It's telling when your ticketing system has to have VIP classifications for requests, but all of this is symptomatic of a failed president who's done absolutely nothing worth remembering. He could've cleaned house, but didn't. And as a result, we're now dealing with massive talent hemorrhaging and unable to refill vacancies since all of our money is being used on either six-figure licensing or the top-heavy six-figure thoroughbreds that make everyday life miserable for both faculty and staff. OIT is ISU's biggest monster that nothing is ever done about.

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