Rasmussen University Reviews

Very unorganized. Poor compensation. You make approx $6 an hour when you add up all your time teaching and managing the course. The person who hired me told me I was going to make a certain amount, the HR person then told me $200 less and when the contract came through it had been cut another $100. But I wanted it on my resume. BAD decision. The course I'm teaching is poorly written and I'm embarrassed to teach it. We have grading protocols for assignments we're supposed to follow but supervisors do not support your decisions. Students will complain about any lost point and take up your time arguing with no ramifications for them. The students are below average. They are pushy and rude. Students expect 100% just for turning in assignments. The instructors before me did not fail the slackers so half of them shouldn't be in my class. But Rasmussen takes the money and pushes everyone through. AND too many students per course!! Management answers e-mails with slogans and jargon, and then forwards your e-mail to 10 people instead of answering your question. Ubiquitous use of the phrase "REACH OUT". A bunch of parrots all day long "Let me reach out to so-and-so about that" or "I'm going to have you reach out to...". Stupidity. Never again will I work here. Two of my supervisors quit mid-term and this info wasn't passed on so I spent weeks trying to communicate with someone who had been fired!!!

There are so many to list, but let me start with the fact that leadership will ask for additional help and not care to reimburse you. I've seen multiple adjunct and full-time faculty miss extra pay for literally several weeks. Not just one or two pay periods, but 4 or 5 pay periods. While all of this is happening... leadership tells you to contact multiple people who are useless and ends up right back to leadership. The result is that leadership is incompetent and does not know how to properly put pay in or they fail to do it timely. The pay is not equal to experience or education level. Pay was market adjusted only for new faculty, so all of the other faculty who has been with the company for years gets paid significantly less with more experience with higher education (because leadership is so desperate that they've started hiring full time faculty with BSNs). Now that the biggest issue is out there, there are many other issues that makes this employer a BAD employer. You are not allowed to utilize your PTO. If you attempt to utilize your PTO, then you will need to ask other faculty to cover you. If you fail, then you will not be able to use PTO. Your "breaks off" are not really breaks. You are expected to answer emails, set up your courses, respond to texts, etc. Get ready for a ton of extra work. The way you are paid is through work units, which is a made-up system to overutilize you without pay. Lectures are graded differently than labs, or clinicals. It's too complicated to even try to explain. When you ask for how work units are calculated to leadership, they don't even know how any of it works. You're told that they don't even understand it. It's bizarre. The poor organization of scheduling... whew.... I don't even know where to begin. You will be expected to take ownership of the Deans' poor planning and re-do students schedules, just for them to change AGAIN in week 4. AWFUL. Zero support. Overall, awful employer. This was my dream job and the leadership has crushed me. I am actively searching for a way out of this cluster.