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Environment is nice, but benefits are poor - Anonymous employee Brevard College Employee Review

3.0
2 July 2019
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Pros

The environment at the college can be very laid back. The campus is scenic. People are nice. You can definitely develop relationships with co-workers that feel like family relationships.

Cons

They don't pay enough. I would hazard a guess and say everyone with the exception of hourly employees and upper management probably needs to make 15-20K more a year. The insurance is atrocious. It's not affordable at all for anyone besides an employee. It's also not anything like Blue Cross/Blue Shield. It's a self-pay kind of insurance plan that the Mission Health System has created. There isn't really a retirement contribution. Turnover is high. While it may be a family-like workplace, the campus is not family friendly. Insurance is too expensive for families. There is no paid maternity leave or anything like it. The "insurance" does not cover any sort of fertility treatment. I have not seen a single baby-changing table on campus; I'm sure there is one somewhere, but not in employee frequented areas. There is no lactation room.

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Cons

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Cons

Lies. Many lies. Get everything in writing. Retaliatory actions that are supported by administration. No faculty governance. Singular focus on sports and not academics. Poorly funded majors. Not ADA compliant. Few people in control of the entire college and its future projections. POOR salaries. Expect less than $45,000 starting WITH PhD in hand as of 2025. Many faculty use their spouses incomes to subsidize the college. Disrespectful leadership. NOT family friendly even though they claim to be. Culture is one of fear with faculty - even those tenured - afraid to speak up! Very complacent with unwillingness to improve or change old and outdated institutional practices. There is a faculty handbook that no one follows and they do not abide by the policies listed in the handbook and claim "that's not how it is now" when they feel like it. Most policies are not written down making it easy for leadership to make them up in the spot which leads to confusion, slow processes, and different steps being given depending on the department. Favoritism given to certain professors for access to on-campus housing. This is a huge issue with such poor salaries in an extremely costly housing market. Most faculty commute over 1 hour. NO connections with the surrounding town and community. The college exists as an island and really does nothing to support or encourage community engagement.

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