Pros
Students are kind, hard working, and serious. Most students appreciate what you do as an instructor. Fellow colleagues are helpful and smart. The academic environment is professional.
Cons
Administration is not collaborative. The management style is heavy-handed and rules are handed down arbitrarily. There is no real shared governance. I don't feel respected for all the work I do (and have done) to support students at this college. Administrators want faculty to go to great lengths to help and support students but then the administration won't support faculty. The morale is quite low and every task is much harder than it needs to be; thus taking faculty away from helping students. There used to be real joy in teaching at Mission, but with the new Chancellor, Brad Davis, that joy is gone. We had a special something but now our former sweet culture has become like another stale corporation.