Needs Transparency to Staff - Anonymous employee UMBC Employee Review

3.0
Aug 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Diverse student body. Supportive co-workers. Always busy with ebb and flow of semester. State benefits are decent. Tuition remission is a plus. There are a ton of hard-working people and offices around campus. Free gym usage. I feel safe on campus. Variety of coffee and lunch places.

Cons

President is inspiring, but Provost has little integrity. Provost puts very little in writing. We were told to "make this go away" when a student raised an issue all the way to the 10th floor. Administration wants to hide low staff morale. Eyes roll at "strategic plan" which does not refer to staff. Long-time staff can seem resistant to change/new technology. Administration expects you to answer emails day, night, weekends just because they have poor work-life balance. People can't believe I pay over $300/year for parking.

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