Reed College reviews

Reed is plagued by a significant drug environment where the college administration turns a blind eye to under age alcohol consumption, drug use, drug dealing, and sexual assaults of staff and students. The college won't tell the parents of a minor student when they become the victim of a sex crime and won't report it to police either unless the student wants these reports to occur. The school portrays itself as open to diversity, but actually they discourage conservative views of employees. The school has an atmosphere that fosters bullying of staff. If a student complains, or multiple students, or multiple staff gang up on someone of conservative background the HR director will look into the matter, believe the group complaining without other evidence, and move to terminate the employee despite the only thing they have done is try to maintain accountability and honesty.

Where do I begin. Reed College is an actively harmful and toxic place to work. The pay is below market rate, and they like to hire recent grads in temporary positions so that they don't have to pay a fare wage and benefits. HR is condescending, rude and obsessed with control. Senior staff is not interested in listening, learning and working to be better. The amount of bullying, misogyny and racism I witnessed was unbelievable. Poor behavior is never addressed and there is never any resolution when conflict occurs. Concrete feedback on ways to make progress are "heard" but never acted on. There is a complete denial that the pandemic is still happening and that it affects people's daily lives. The official stance is that remote work is NOT available for staff, however certain departments still have people secretly working at home a few days a week. Long story short, you will not be valued at this institution. While things seem to be shiny and bright from the outside what lies beneath is an institution with no interest in transparency or progress and a soul damaging commitment to protecting the status quo.