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As good as you'd think in some areas, but sometimes allergic to change - Project Manager Harvard University Employee Review

4.0
Dec 4, 2019
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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.

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Pros

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Cons

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