SUNY Plattsburgh Reviews

Unfair treatment of teachers. A university that celebrates only scholarly isolated work by tenure-track instructors (who can be liberated of teaching load for university service or research) and abandons lecturers who do most of the teaching (8 courses per year regardless the university service or research). The tenure track personal, who is mainly concern with his/her research, publication, next sabbatical, and disconnected from the student reality, do not care for student evaluations and opinions because they are never evaluated as instructors. They don’t have to work in a team, and be nice to their co-workers. They are basically above everybody. By contrast, lecturers with the same qualifications, are constantly and relentlessly evaluated by the tenure track and doing more and more university service to keep their positions. Lecturers and adjuncts are treated as a second-class citizens.

There is limited opportunity to move up in my field on this campus.