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Pima Community College Reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)
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Lee Lambert

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63% positive business outlook

Pima Community College has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pima Community College employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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185 reviews
2.0
15 Dec 2018

A sinking ship...

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Pros

There are some awesome people that work at Pima. Good benefits. Pima is really the only game in town in terms of affordability for students with limited resources. There are some great faculty and staff that really care about students.

Cons

The problem with Pima is it has some sort of sickness, kind of like a chronic disease that can't be fully cured. It gets better at times, but it just can't seem to shake the sickness. What is the sickness....I would call it cultural incompetency and fear, especially at the administrative level. Administrators making fat 6 figure salaries that don't want to make difficult decisions because they do not want to upset anyone. Leadership tends not to be around either. It became common towards the end of my time there for staff to complain that administrators can never be found. Lack of leadership and leadership presence leaves people feeling uneasy, uncared for and demoralized. These are the exact symptoms staff exhibited when I eventually decided to leave Pima. I am very grateful for my 10 years at Pima, but I am so glad to be out of there.

2.0
26 Apr 2019
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Pros

Interesting, capable, and friendly faculty colleagues. Hard working and appreciative students, most who are first-generation college students. PCC is the educational bargain of the state. Such an excellent education for less than $85 a credit hour. You have to wonder why anyone in southern AZ would pay $1500 per credit hour for the UA.

Cons

A truly bloated, overpaid, and unimaginative administration. Rude staff members who treat adjuncts like the administration trains them to do- like unskilled, lowly paid grunts. Ask part-timers to do a lot of unpaid work, including more than 15 hours of unpaid mandatory training this year. It's absolutely outrageous, disrespectful, and possibly illegal (at least I assume people are supposed to be paid for being at work).

1.0
13 Mar 2019
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Pros

Higher education is a critical component of our society.

Cons

Beyond the culture of abject incompetence, I have never witnessed a workplace with greater animosity towards its' part time employees. They treat you like nameless cattle. They make it clear that you are "lesser" in every way. Maybe it's to make themselves feel better about how terrible they are at college administration. When the Higher Learning Commission comes around they scramble to put lipstick on a pig, lest they lose their accreditation - something they have had issues with for years. They don't care about their people and the people, in turn, provide terrible customer service to the students. It's a terrible cycle. There is not one person that I've spoken with who enjoys their job or thinks Pima does a good job managing staff. Mostly, everyone has low morale and is totally jaded.

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