Erikson Institute Reviews

Huge salary discrepancy between senior management and staff. The senior administration hires new high-level positions with large salaries to feed ego-building projects at the expense of programs and regular staff compensation increases. An obsession with consultants, management fads, and "strategic planning" has led to demoralized staff who very clearly realize the current administration lacks any coherent vision or leadership, other than raising senior administration's own profile. Faculty have left and not been replaced due to funding being diverted, due to whims of the senior administration and board, to high-level, expensive "policy" positions and a reputed "nationwide early childhood report." Why funds go toward these goals when this is, in fact, a graduate school remains an unanswered question. Faculty lack respect and confidence in the administration.

Faculty and VPs think they are royalty.