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3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(149 total reviews)
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Donald J. Farish

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35% positive business outlook

Roger Williams University has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Roger Williams University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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149 reviews
3.0
Oct 13, 2015

Top Heavy

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Pros

Campus is beautiful and if you're lucky enough you might be able to work in a good department.

Cons

Unions everywhere protecting the dead weight. Instead of rewarding employees with strong records, we are pitted against people who have worked here for 20+ years and have sucked this place dry - free tuition for themselves and their kids, benefits, hierarchy (or perceived hierarchy). If you expect people to clock in then call people out who cheat the system or abuse the benefits. The administration is a lot highly paid people, but it's not addressing the falling retention rate, are they taking a salary cut to help eliminate the deficit, or the lack of wages/raises for other employees. There were a lot of people who's positions were "eliminated" by the end of the academic year this summer and then new positions were created for vice presidents or vice provosts. Lots of RWU alumni working here which doesn't do much for diverse environment. A lot of old time professors who don't meet the needs of the new student

1.0
Sep 24, 2014

Politics in higher education

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Pros

Satisfying and rewarding working with current students and alumni of this university.

Cons

Being in middle management is a nightmare of office politics. Safer to be in one of the 5 unions at this university. Saw many (good) people get fired, escorted out with no notice, and generally treated badly. The perils of working in an "at will" state perhaps, but definitely a peril of working at RWU! :(

1.0
Sep 5, 2018

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Pros

The ocean view, that's about it!

Cons

They should be shut down!

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