Vantaggi
The Dallas College reorg was done with the right intention. Unfortunately, a company with no higher Ed experience was selected to do the reorg and weren't kept on to deal with the fallout and change management. The benefits are pretty good, and most employees are great to work with. Centralizing everything could simplify so much and really streamline the brand, communications and the student experience given the right direction.
Svantaggi
Pay isn't competitive and kind of shady. Depending on which HR person you get, compensation is all over the place. There isn't an open door policy, so the politics and bureaucracy get in the way of progress. You have to send an email up 6-10 levels of management and wait months to get definitive answers on moving forward with projects. Lack of communication and decision-making. People aren't empowered to do the jobs they were hired for so everything gets bottlenecked at the upper levels who are overworked and bogged down with administrative tasks and don't have time to provide strategic leadership. Literally no processes in place. There are days I wonder how anything happens. Onboarding is a joke. Again, no process. College Complete chaos. IT has too much power and nonsensical oversight. Risk assessment literally takes months which impedes our ability to do our job even were waiting on a technology. There's so much duplication of technology because there's no inventory of what proucts the college already has and what they do.