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Assistant Director - Anonymous employee Long Island University Employee Review

1.0
Jul 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

LIU offers good vacation time even for first year employees (20+ days a year) and a culture of using sick leave so liberally that it functions as additional time off means. So institutionally disorganized that if you stay out of the president's way you can effectively do nothing for years without being noticed, if that's what you want. Finally, the Brooklyn campus is in an area of Brooklyn seeing a huge resurgence which is nice.

Cons

There is almost zero room for growth and little chance of having any real decision making responsibility. The president and a very select group of others preside over everything with nearly zero input from deans or other mid to upper level management. Employees are seen as objects and not people and morale is often extremely low especially among those who want to work to change processes. There is also almost no institutional communication leaving employees constantly guessing what the executive strategy is. So disorganized and top heavy it's probably a great way to find out what it felt like living in communist Russia... If t were ruled by the Red Queen in Alice and Wonderland. There's a huge amount of brain train in all offices - good talent typically does not stay there long. Finally, the board of trustees seems to be much more connected to LIU Post and will do anything to prop up a failing campus, often at the expense of LIU Brooklyn (which given its location in a desirable area in NYC has much more potential to grow).

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Cons

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Cons

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