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Avoid ISU's Culture of "Exclusive Mediocrity" - Assistant Professor Indiana State University Employee Review

1.0
28 May 2017
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Cannot honestly think of even one benefit; becoming unemployed looks preferable right now for one's sanity...ISU's top down, normative management talks a big game on "inclusive excellence," but sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. No real "shared governance" or true ownership among the faculty exists here. Talented faculty, go elsewhere!

Cons

Inept, greedy administrators; pathetic pay for regular faculty, while administrators are consistently overpaid; lion's share of teaching load piled upon the shoulders of untenured, pre-tenured faculty whose promised contracts/appointments are routinely dumped at will; constant turnover, due to culture of fear, backbiting; hostility prevails in most departments; mediocrity is rewarded, students go unchallenged -even encouraged toward status quo; terrible value for students' education dollar

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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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