1. INBRED! Much of the lower, mid-level, and even worst, the senior administrators were all educated at GW - a disturbing number received bachelors, masters AND doctorates all at GW -- and as a result there are few fresh ideas, people do not understand a world outside of GW. They have rose-colored glasses and think GW is the best place in the world but that is because they don't know any other place. They don't know how much better work environment can be. Most higher ed institutions ENCOURAGE their students to go out to other schools to get new perspectives. If an undergraduate student dreams of eventually working at their alma mater the professors tell them to leave the nest, go somewhere else for graduate school and then return with new ideas. Not GW. They want to keep your tuition money. I have worked at several other institutions as well as been a student myself at others and I have never seen a place so inbred.
2. Bureaucracy! Someone else in a review here got it exactly right - a medium sized entity but with the bureaucracy of the federal government! Just because the White House is GW's neighbor and Cap Hill is close by, too, does not mean GW needs to emulate the bureaucracy.
3. If you drive, be prepared to give over half your paycheck to parking fees. And the university will be closing down one of its major parking garages soon with no plan on where employees and students are supposed to park.
4. Many of the academic programs are not worth their reputation. ... and they can't see how broken they are because again, half the administrators and faculty were educated at GW.
5. I must emphasize - INBRED! - Administrators constantly talk about "looking outside the box" but GW can't even recognize the box that they have put themselves in.
