St. Olaf reviews about "colleague"

Do not value their professors very much, more and more adjuncts, do not give tenure-track positions, keep you on a 1-year contract.

Really depends on department, colleagues.

Low pay for midcareer faculty and early career staff

The administration is just plain odd and very insular. Communication is weird; a lot of management is fear-based. If you didn't graduate from here, you will not be able to advance and if you are quirky, you'll be bullied and/or eliminated. Top talent is expected to work non-stop and for below-scale pay. One person is running 3 departments, so the college is saving a lot of money by not hiring 2 professionals. They do not have a cash flow problem, so this stinginess is puzzling. The cost to top-performers is high in terms of health issues. They are very slow to adopt new ideas, like distance learning, which will have serious consequences in the long run.

Administration and a small town midwest culture

An ethos of coddling certain students; location; lack of student. faculty, and staff diversity; lack of scholarly resources outside of the sciences; an exceptionalist narrative that celebrates parochialism; nepotism (comparatively high percentage of alumni on faculty)

As is the case with most places, concerns around equity persist