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Sam Houston State reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(613 total reviews)
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Dana G Hoyt

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40% positive business outlook

Sam Houston State has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 613 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sam Houston State 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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613 reviews
4.0
Jan 1, 2013

Great place to work as a student.

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Pros

Fun, friendly place to go to school and work.

Cons

Not many opportunities for promotion.

1.0
Oct 4, 2012

Horrible

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Pros

The people in Huntsville are very nice and some of the people at the university are truly concerned and caring.

Cons

There is so much inbreeding that national searches are a joke. For instance, they had a national search for a provost - and lo and behold, they hired someone from the inside - a small man with a small mind....no vision, no imagination, and a limited world view. They had a national search for a president, and lo and behold, they hired someone from the inside - Dana Gibson is great with alumni and finances, but depends on the "little man" for academic decisions, and he's clueless. When they finally got someone good from the outside, the dean of fine arts and mass communication - someone who had vision, who cared about the faculty and students, who instituted positive changes...they did everything they could to make her life hard and it finally made her ill enough to resign. This is a fourth rate institution and with its lack of leadership, will remain mediocre.

2.0
Sep 24, 2012

Unstable

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Pros

Easy work for the most part, never very demanding

Cons

The scheduling is completely messed up. Half of the people here have no idea what they are doing. If they mess up they blame the workers below them.

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