St. Olaf reviews about "benefit"

Smaller school. Salaries often lower than market. Benefits sometimes less competitive than at larger schools. Retirement and other benefits better. Compare whole compensation letter, not just salary.

Very Be cliquish office environment. Those who live in Northfield benefit from this clique, many excellent staff who are new move on quickly. Leadership is not trained properly to meet goals and leads to excessive bullying of staff. Excessive gossip has lead to many departures and a few firings. Beware of this culture!

No clear path for advancement, everything is very manual-no automation, a lot of recent staffing changes,

Low pay. Unaffordable health care benefits. Lack of courageous leadership. Many inexperienced/incompetent people managers. Lots of St. Olaf grads working there. Feels very inbred. Work culture varies greatly from dept. to dept. and thus work expectations and experience depends on your position and management. Be careful.

Sub-par pay and benefits. Toxic environment of cronyism, management by fear and intimidation, complete lack of true support for any type of diversity.

Good luck finding housing. Nobody is responsible or very interested in helping temporary faculty find housing, I spent 4 months in a hotel without my family. Teachers working fulltime during the summer are not eligible for benefits.

Not a lot of room for advancement. Cost of benefits keep increasing. Wage increases not even close to the rate of inflation. "That's how it is in Higher Education" is a common phrase.