Portland State University Reviews in Portland, OR Area

Pros

Very flexible and supporting management.

Cons

compensations are on lower side

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

location is ideal. Campus is beautiful.

Cons

parking is a problem. Expensive to park.

Advice to Senior Management

Technical. have not been in touch with the latest. Do receive the magazine. But alumni reach could be better. Hear great improvement sin the engineering dept.

Pros

Great staff and wonderful, diverse students.

Cons

Strapped system that does not deliver quality service. Poor leadership from highest levels of the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Mid and low-level management is great. High level management talks but doesn't ask questions or listen to feedback.

Pros

It provides a very good learning environment, and research environment. good and friendly colleagues at work place.

Cons

there is very slow progress and completion of research degree takes very long time. So, sometimes it becomes frustrating.

Pros

its good environment to work in.

Cons

sometimes may induce weird rules which affect us.

Advice to Senior Management

its good place to work. sometimes the manager is insensitve. but otherwise a good place. had imposed some weird rules.

Pros

Benefits. That's about it. Not much else to say.

Cons

Salaries (except for upper management) are stagnant. Accounted for inflation, I'm making LESS than I was when I started working there seven years ago.

Advice to Senior Management

Start rewarding employees monetarily for their work.

Pros

Friendly environment.Hard to tell the pros.All pros are cons.No pros really, have to give stress to my brain to think about pros.

Cons

Small number of opportunities to enhance knowledge,small package.No career development.No opportunities to grow.Worst place to work.Dreadful experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase the pay package.Try to work in the interest of employees.Try to get some more funding.You already know the university ranking that explains it all.

Pros

Location in beautiful downtown Portland "Cultural District." Urban university that ideally could be force for innovation in the community.

Cons

Paralyzed by constant infighting by mediocre dept. heads and oblivious deans. What's left needs a serious review, both for transparency and accountability. Constant internal squabbling over which agency will pay for what; to the extent that a brand new building lacked wireless internet for months because no unit in the organization wanted to be "stuck" paying for it if they could find a way for another one to foot the bill

Advice to Senior Management

There needs to be a way for faculty and staff to communicate with upper management. Most ideas for improvement die within the office or dept. Or worse, are never voiced since job security belongs to a diminishing minority of workers on this campus. I think Wiewel has good ideas and I agree with his initiatives. But he might as well be on another planet for all the access I have to him. And how are those initiatives to "trickle down" through a wall of indifferent and incompetent hierarchy who have done very well via the status quo.

Pros

Wonderful Location and Flexible Position

Cons

Lower Salary than other places perhaps

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

portland is nice town
good food
great ppl
great gym swim pool
great parks mountains
great great everything in town

Cons

long hours
food is not good
too much preasure on employees
no compensation
no health benefits that are good
politics

Advice to Senior Management

you should have good managem,ent ....everyone shd not be at their own. Management must take imp initiatives but they are slow