Idyllwild Arts Reviews

Appalling leadership. Spoiled students. Everyone miserable. Can’t wait to leave.

Appalling management. They hired me and then let me go due to administrative and money issues within a year. They lied to me- seemingly for intentional cruelty- during the firing, and never bothered to go through HR or my department chair. I worked sometimes fifteen or sixteen days in a row with no breaks pretty regularly. On Fridays I worked 10AM-11PM- meetings, then my regular teaching schedule and then a grueling shift in the dorms. Everyone was exhausted, overworked, and either fired to save money or thinking about quitting. When I asked, people said this was just the "culture" there. All departments dramatically understaffed and turned over constantly. I lived on campus and when I was moving out, maintenance went into my house, opened up a bunch of my moving boxes, took things they then "lost" and gave me back what wasn't valuable. They stole kitchen appliances, tools, cosmetics, furniture, and prescription meds- and then they got mad at ME for it. Hugely disrespectful to staff and massively disorganized.