Vantaggi
None that I ever experienced
Svantaggi
When you need your campus presidents to write good reviews of your "school" on this site...that should say it all. ECPI is all about the money and cares little about their students and even less about their faculty. Having left a year ago now and experienced what teaching at a real school is like, I cannot tell you how bad a mistake you are making if you try and get a job here. You will be paid quite poorly for starters, even if you have a terminal degree and you will NEVER get a raise. There are no job promotions and there is no opportunity for advancement. The "benefits" are expensive yet lousy and get worse every year. You will work 15-hour days at least twice, if not 4 days a week. You will have to work Saturdays and be compelled to lie to potential students the same way you were lied to when you applied for this job. You will be told by "management" how to teach and more importantly how to grade classes that you are the expert in. You will be lied to about management personnel changes and school name changes. You will have zero academic freedom but that doesn't really matter because you will have zero time between 5-week long, 5 hour-a-day courses to prepare anything because you aren't told what course you will be teaching until the day before it starts. You will get no breaks during said 5-hour courses because it is your duty to call absent adult students during your "break" and lie to them about the importance of coming to this school that only cares about getting their financial aid checks. What's really awesome is that you will have to teach a full course even if there are only 2 students enrolled in it. If there is only 1 student enrolled in a course then ECPI doesn't hold the course...WRONG! You get to teach that one student on your own time and we'll just call it "independent study". The greatest part of all is that the time and work you devote towards the "independent study" doesn't even count toward your courseload! You will have "sit downs" with so-called management if a student fails (they call it being "unsuccessful") your class and be reprimanded because you didn't give the adult student the tools they needed to be "successful". Now mind you, the student is a single mother with three small children who lives 50 miles from the school, does drugs, and lacks transportation. However, you will surely be told that you are at fault for why that student lacks the tools to be successful in your course. You will always be presumed wrong when matters of judgement arise because if a student walks, there goes the financial aid checks with them so it is better to blame the faculty. Every so often, accreditation visits come up and the manufacturing of lies REALLY starts then! Only those faculty who can be trusted to tell the accreditors what ECPI needs them to hear will be allowed near them and even then, your responses are scripted for you. I could go on and on after nearly 10 years of working there but ask yourself...do you really want to work like this? I don't think so... I would give zero stars for ratings if I could. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. It's so much better at a real school....
