Portland State University Reviews

Pros

Great location, wonderful institution. No better place to be located, Portland is awesome and offers so much for everyone. PSU is a great school and your colleagues and the students are wonderful. Benefits are great but are under threat.

Cons

Pay is at the low end of acceptable for anyone but top administration. Raises barely exist for the rank and file. Benefits packages are under attack. Classes are getting bigger and bigger.

Advice to Senior Management

Take pay and benefits issues seriously. You have a large dedicated group of professionals working for you, please take care of them.

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

Can take classes for 1/4 the cost of undergrad rates. Fun to be in academic environment. Great urban school. Diverse and stimulating environment with a wid range of personality types.

Cons

Some union employees do as litle as possible because they know they can't get fired.
The bureaucracy is evident in outmoded and kafka-esque procedures and protocols at times, especially to students who've never had to deal w/ large institutional policies before.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to standardize the employee review procedure to have it be same in all departments. Need to have more effective and professional staff meetings.

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

Great people
Collaboration opportunities within and outside of discipline
Good connections to community
Good research support
Excellent benefits

Cons

Still working on building national distinction
Your experiences at this school will totally depend on your job title and your department. I can't say it is a uniformly good place to work for everyone. This place could be a gem if it fits with your research interests and the type of support you need, but I have seen some craziness elsewhere in campus