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Completely Toxic - Assistant Professor Michigan State University Employee Review

1.0
Apr 3, 2014
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Pros

Summers off while you're working on your tenure track

Cons

Academic politics some of the worst I've ever encountered. Lowest pay of all the Big 10 schools. Little to no Work/Life balance. Inappropriate and criminally questionable conduct from faculty. In short, the entire faculty in this department was a group of emotionally underdeveloped mean girls - and those were the 40 year old men!

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