Most employees join Hunter because they're dedicated to public education and want to serve students and support their success. However, highest levels of leadership lead a culture of toxicity with impossible expectations and zero support to staff. Departments have learned to rely on themselves internally and cannot trust outside departments leading to in-fighting between departments making it extremely difficult to collaborate. It also means that there's always double work because our most basic college functions do not receive the support or staffing they need to appropriately serve our student body. At the end of the day, it's the students who suffer. Current (highest levels of) leadership at the college is beyond saving. We need new leaders who will foster spirit of collaboration between departments, will appropriately staff our administrative offices, and will allow employees the flexibility to do their jobs in a way that allows us to take care of our own families and in a way that also makes the most sense for our students. Generalized policy helps no one if it's always catered to one type of student experience. Current leadership refuses to listen to staff and instead we are demeaned, patronized, and ignored. What's worse is the gaslighting of being made to feel like we must not care about our students for speaking up about our current culture. Morale is at an all time low.
P.S. It's a terrible look to retweet a research article exploring the child care crisis and its impact on women in the workforce when you as an employer are not offering flexibility to working parents!
