Fayetteville State University, TT listing

[BetterThanUnemployment]

Let me be frank. The place has issues. But so do many other places. If you need to be in NC for some reason, you could do a lot worse. 


jobs.uncfsu.edu/postings/18776

[Killed cat]

Could you say more about the issues there? Where are the issues? Department level, college level, or university level?

[Since you asked...]

It is an HBCU. If you are not prepared to work at an HBCU then your experience will be worse. There is a lot of turnover because too many people get hired without knowing what to expect. New faculty are hired at a higher pay than faculty hired in the last ten years. Since there have been no raises in years, the disparity gets pretty extreme. Salary statistics you can look up online are pretty skewed because the College of Business and the College of Education have some insanely high (mid six figures) incomes. Support staff turnover is just as high, so it is often a case of the blind leading the blind. Many people who work there have a good attitude, but this is eroded by the constant increase in workload without adequate training or commensurate increase in salary. It is located in a military town; combined with the higher faculty and staff turnover, it is hard to make lasting friends. So imagine all the changes occurring in higher ed (business model, top-heavy administration, assessment, accreditation, etc., job skills over learning to think and communicate with others), but in an environment run by religiously and politically conservative members of the "old school" who believe that new faculty have to pay their dues. Even in traditionally liberal departments. When the University changed standards for TPR that helped ease some of the less productive faculty out, but that did not change the fundamental nature of the University.

[Killed Cat]

Thank you. This is exactly the kind of information that helps very much.

[Leaving an NC HBCU]

^That description of the challenges of working for an NC HBCU is near perfect. HBCU's are important American institutions, but they are challenging places to work.

[sowhat?]

any updates? Or did you just want to let us know that one of the dozens of jobs that we applied to and haven't heard from "has issues"?