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      4.2

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (104 total reviews)
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      Jerry Farley

      48% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Senior management

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Compensation and benefits

      Washburn University has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 104 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Washburn 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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      104 reviews
      3.0
      Jun 8, 2026

      Decent faculty autonomy but terrible pay and increasingly toxic upper admin

      Full time faculty
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      Pros

      Relative faculty autonomy; not much pressure (that I experienced) to inflate grades; students are a mixed bag but overall tend to be respectful

      Cons

      The pay is god awful--like insultingly bad. Students I taught were getting jobs at the university after they graduated and making more than many full-time faculty. And this is to say nothing of the growing use of adjuncts, most of whom make less than $3k per class. The university's leadership is also deeply problematic. The upper administration turned over almost completely in the last 3-5 years. Many in the new leadership were promoted from within and it's led to a culture of nepotism, currying favor, and playing favorites. If you add both of those things together, you get an increasingly toxic workplace that's beginning to destroy faculty morale.

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