A potentially great place that's been run into the ground - Anonymous employee Hamline University Employee Review

Fiscal management is poor -- bounces back and forth between bonuses and layoffs/"realignments" year to year. Budgeting process not grounded in market reality, economic reality. Lots of talk about transparency, but little to no follow-through. Faculty and staff told that the low morale "is our problem". Recent layoffs at Hamline and voluntary early retirement (emergency measures to balance this year's budget) mean that already overworked staff are stretched even thinner. Impact could reverberate through university for years to come before things get back to normal.