Regent University Reviews

over 100 people were let go in spring 2018- some with no warning and with as little as two weeks notice. The SOE is on their 6th dean in 5 years, there is no communication, strong programs are leveled and program decisions made in 20 minutes, leaders are ineffective at all levels- one administrator openly stated that the place was going under- what kind of message is that- maybe the truth for once? as if we did not know this--

It seems that more recently as of writing this review, there have been a few fake reviews created to boost the poor Glassdoor reviews that the HR department is aware of. Every negative detail in these Glassdoor reviews is no exaggeration. Looking through the 10 years of reviews for this place, it’s sad to say that not much has changed which compels me to write this review. Nepotism still runs rampant as favorites are chosen for promotion over more qualified individuals. There is a constant struggle for power among leadership. Management doesn’t take kindly to expression of opinion. It seems to be seen as a challenge and can lead to a witch hunt of reasons to terminate an individual. If management doesn’t like you, they would find any reason they can to terminate an individual. These actions are the very opposite of what this University is supposed to stands for. Promoting internally is common here where co-workers try to get a competitive edge by taking other people’s ideas and running with it and presenting it to upper management as their own original idea. Lower management positions are created to assert management’s power to validate their authority leading to intense micromanagement across the board. These extra layers of middle management essentially create a telephone game of extra projects that never make it to completion. Upper Management are internally promoted and display their inexperience by leading a department through their constant restructuring and retractions of changes. Poor planning skills contribute to this as meetings are created and conducted to talk about issues that could easily be addressed by a single individual rather than pooling in a group of people. The EM Department has a strong quest for power as they’ve absorbed various departments to create and validate its growing management hierarchy. This creates a highly toxic work environment with a tendency to push out existing department leadership and install their own inexperienced leaders whom they trust. These individuals typically do not have any idea how the business unit works and try to run the business unit the way they are familiar with. The Advising department for example where Advisors usually reach out to students for Academic support and guidance had turned into a Retention call center where the top priority is calling students multiple times to register for classes and hit a goal of 10K enrolled students to please Executive leadership. The EM Department has also created teams that emulate other individual departments. They’ve created basically a Marketing team and IT team internally that have duties which overlap with other departments responsibilities. These overlapping responsibilities create miscommunication with other departments on items such as email campaigns for example leading to conflicting information being sent out. If you are a Technology Professional, Avoid working in the EM Department at all costs. They will use you as a severely underpaid bargaining chip to try and compete with the IT department. You would be more likely to rapidly grow professionally by working in the IT Department with experienced Industry professionals or some other workplace rather than with the EM Department.