Pros
Columbia has great benefits and time off. Very flexible and has great training opportunities. On the tech side going to conferences the prestiges value is extremely helpful. Great people and community to help with my skills. Free subscription resources to online materials like Lynda.com and digital books.
Cons
The pay at the university is less than businesses. Columbia has a sense of you should be honored to work here. The tech is not updated and many things are not current or state of the art. Budgets need to be kept to and do not change much year to year. All departments are not unified. This means every department and section of the main IT unit are separate. Working in a place where everything is seprate is hard and sometimes more costly since there is redundant contracts.