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Unity Environmental University

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Laid off necessary employees - Coordinator Unity Environmental University Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2021
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Pros

Wonderful students to work with! Great faculty and co-workers. Comparable pay and benefits.

Cons

President lied to staff. Board members treated like gods, but made decisions based only on money, not the needs of students. Ignored student and faculty input. Staff worked hard to help support President's innovative ideas for the college, and we were rewarded by a decision for the college to go entirely hybrid/online, laying off 70 dedicated staff members without notice. They bought land and made poor investments, then laid off staff to balance the budget. They also allowed us to bank unused vacation time, but when they laid us off a month later, we lost all of those hours without compensation. The college used to be a great hands-on college for environmental programs, but you can't offer the same hands-on learning online. Not fair for staff or students. Don't trust them.

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5.0
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Unity has been incredible at changing student lives Great people to work with A lot of transparency!! Mission driven Encourages living wages for all Salary/pay increases whenever we are growing Flexible remote work benefit, depending on the position Heuristics that make sense to help scale growth

Cons

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2.0
Mar 6, 2026
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Pros

Stable/predictable. Upon completing onboarding managing caseload is straightforward with a simple cadance to work.

Cons

Performance gets additional work with no compensation, metrics only used to penalize not reward. Management style is poor and seems to exist solely to isolate workers into very tiny pools of interactions. No meaningful feedback loop, with vital information getting outright ignored for long periods until it balloons into larger problems. While individuals can be exceptional the structure prevents meaningful communication between departments. Decisions will go live with no communication and expectations that others clean up messes from changes no one knew was coming. With the students being the ones to suffer the worst consequences.

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