Classes are rushed, no time to prepare before the next semester. Short days but frequently bringing paper work because there isn't time to grade unless you want to do it during lunch or stay late. Students are picking up on broken tools and outdated equipment, internet too slow to complete assignments and inconsistent policy enforcement leads to a culture of pushing students through the program rather than ensuring a thorough education. Very little satisfaction in the job anymore.
Programs are a mess and ironically, for being in education, training new faculty and staff is almost a novel idea.
2-3% yearly raise doesn't cover inflation, cost of living increases, or regular insurance premium increases. Newer instructors make $20K+ more than experienced instructors, partly due to massive wage compression, and partly due to instructors leaving and the college hires whoever they can get in the door in order to start a new class every semester. And administration's answer to the wage discrepancy is to let vested employees quit when the instructors are either mad enough or can't afford to keep coming in to work. The only way to ever earn more money (pennies at that) is to practically bleed Ranken and volunteer for every additional job possible, leading to eventual burnout. Meanwhile the President's yearly bonus is more than some tenured instructors could ever hope to earn in a year. This is a huge demoralizer school-wide.
Faculty have started wearing body cameras because admin is too afraid of a lawsuit from an entitled student to listen to their employees or watch the security camera footage and actually hold the student accountable.
Nothing is taken seriously until after a safety event has actually occurred, and then still no further action is made to mitigate any future events.
