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Wonderful place to work - Lecturer/Part-time Yale University Employee Review

5.0
Jan 31, 2016
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Pros

The students are some of the smartest and most talented that I have ever met. The staff are like family. We know each other well and we support each other and help each other. It's a pleasure to come to work. The job is exactly what you would expect - you teach, you hold office hours, you grade papers, etc.

Cons

New Haven isn't really a city in which you can raise a family. Most staff and faculty live in other towns and drive in. The homelessness rate is high, and there are a lot of muggings and petty crime incidents. The part-time contract means that you may not have guaranteed employment for more than a few months at a time, and often the job falls through at the last minute due to low student enrollment or the department giving the course to permanent faculty or graduate students.

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Pros

The BBS Umbrella program is fantastic - allows people to switch between tracks (not the easiest, but the option for this flexibility is nice) and it houses many fantastic departments with strong support for their students and faculty. The Department of Cell Biology was amazing. Faculty mentors (not always, but way more often) felt like colleagues that listen to you and are "in the weeds" with you. Major shout out to the BCMM Holy Trinity (probably moved at this point to the new building) that fostered such a fun work environment and trustworthy mentorship. Note the "Con" below, but it is also important to mention that many of the faculty that I worked with were supportive of my (and others') pursuit of other career paths. Also, the ratings below reflect my opinions after the Union was put into place.

Cons

Both Yale and the academic departments could do a better job preparing their students for alternative career paths. The culture is still definitely leaning towards the academic route despite the increasingly fewer number of faculty positions available each year. There will seldomly be pushback to the pursuit of other career paths, but this pursuit has to be 100% innately driven for each candidate. In contrast, the culture externally influences people to naturally go the academic route.

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