4.0
Dec 4, 2019
Current employee, more than 5 years
Cambridge, MA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
--good benefits, especially related to education benefits --many paths for career change and growth within academic administration --endowment and grant funding generally allows for seed funding for really impactful projects and research.
Cons
--administration of each school is steeped in a weird slurry of bureaucratic culture and decentralized structure so as to make it unnecessarily hard to do anything new. --faculty/staff and faculty/student relations can be fraught-- in other words, some times people who publish a lot aren't the best teachers or leaders, but the promotion structure mostly benefits those people over more adept educators and innovators.