Sinking Ship - Anonymous employee Excelsior University Employee Review

Great friendly atmosphere Amazing office space Great benefits

Changing strategy leading to letting employees go regularly

Very little these days. The decent pay is hardly worth the dysfunction.

The Excelsior President has decided the incompetent shall lead the university. Two recent dictatorship decisions to promote has everyone scratching their heads. Brown nosing will get you places because it sure as heck is not performance. The university is sinking fast. Prematurely opened a Florida site that has NO students or prospects. Paying someone to sit down there and do what? Poorly designed courses with a ridiculous timeline for revision, but hey, that’s just our business. Would you want a course five years out of date? So we’re not dysfunctional enough, let’s acquire a new school, go into debt, overwork nearly every employee, when we all know failure is on the wall. Nearly everyone, apart from the president's fan club, is looking to leave, even in this crappy economy. If the board doesn’t step in, Excelsior won’t exist in five years. It would be hard to believe it could be this bad if we didn’t live it everyday. But don’t worry, HR will leave a message here saying they are working to improve things. Meanwhile you can’t even get them to respond to questions or emails. Don’t get me started on IT. I’ve never seen so many unqualified people poorly leading qualified people.