Vantaggi
Friendly employee culture. Staff are genuinely concerned for one another and we get to work with awesome students. Campus is beautiful, and we have access to amenities like free gyms and the lake campus. Retirement benefits are competitive. The college puts 10% of your salary into retirement if you put in 1%, and you're vested after 3 years. The college has a strong history of allowing staff to move to new positions in other departments/offices, and phased retirement is a regular practice here. The college also helps pay for your kids' college educations if you've been here a certain number of years.
Svantaggi
When people leave Davidson, they leave Davidson for financial reasons. The salaries are not competitive, and medical benefits are meh and prices are rising. The college recently began a new yearly budgeting process that requires every department to shave off 7% of its annual budget to be "reallocated." The process is even less transparent than it was before, and employees are generally displeased as it appears that the reallocations go to pet projects. Staff are legendarily regarded as second-class compared to faculty, and unfortunately there are many situations in which this is made painfully clear to staff.