Ok place to work - Associate Staff UMBC Employee Review

3.0
Jul 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There is some schedule flexibility (depending on which category you are in), good environment to teach with nice facilities.

Cons

It is State government, so there is a lot of bureaucracy. Like most higher education places, the politics of faculty vs staff are exhausting. I think there are lots of bad decisions made with staffing, some core services experience too much turnover (like the Registrar). I think that salaries are ok and you should be alright IF you get along with your department, but this is something the University has struggled for years with. Tenure process is ridiculously easy (embarrassing for an honors university), Everyone gets it unless you are just a terrible candidate.

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Pros

Flexible hours and a lot of career growth.

Cons

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2.0
Apr 1, 2026
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Pros

**This review is for UMBC Training Centers org affiliated with UMBC not for the main campus** Fairly professional work environment; decent pay until they cut it by 10%

Cons

Struggling non-profit business in a struggling industry. They didn't do themselves any favors by letting a lot of their private sector business walk away in droves doing nothing about it. If you walk in their office, it is a abrasively depressing environment. Barely anyone left onsite except a couple paper pushers. It looks like a mostly shuttered operation with few to no classes going on. The few clients they have left are old legacy government clients they are struggling to keep. I saw the writing on the wall. This place is spinning out on a more rapid timeline thanks to the government shutdowns. Don't get me wrong, upper management are decent people, but terrible at navigating the business and industry they're in. In the business community I operated in during my time there, it was made clear they're pretty much irrelevant. A non-factor.

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