University of Alaska Reviews in Alaska

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska

Pros – A great place to work

Cons – can't get more people to work at arsc

Advice to Senior Management – keep up the great work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Love the state, great place to be to get away from the rat race.

Cons – All of the great employees here are demoralized because of the lack of direction.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn how to set goals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska full-time

Pros – Tuition waiver for free tuition for spouse and family, lots of activities on campus

Cons – Health benefits cost more and we receive less each year. Tuition waiver is slowly being phased out.

Advice to Senior Management – Give your employees better benefits if you want to keep them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska

Pros – Living in Alaska is a special experience.

Cons – Traveling out of Alaska for professional development can be very inconvenient and expensive. Opportunities of research collaboration are limited. The long, cold winter can be a turn-off for many people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska

Pros – great place to work depending on department
nice people
relaxed environment
great advancement

Cons – good old boys club at the very top of the structure
little flexibility in changing things

Advice to Senior Management – Bring in new blood that is not politically relevant in Alaska in some way.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at University of Alaska

Pros – Good place for student workers. They do bulk of the work for Biology people. Its nice environment to work for.

Cons – Nothing that bad. I wish they had more funding to support more projects and more students. The funding runs out anytime.

Advice to Senior Management – I think management skills are good. Although it would be nice to see it get more funding to keep continuing the cool projects

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska

Pros – There are lots of intriguing projects. The possibility existes to be creative when solving problems. There is a good balance here between work and family. The Institute is always involved with cutting-edge research, so people who work here can often feel like inventors.

Cons – University funding is limited, and sometims the staff is considered somewhat expendable. There is little effort to keep payscales in line with market rates, so it is always up to the employee to push for compensation.

Advice to Senior Management – They need to think about staff as a resource to be developed, rather than a tool to be used or discarded. Managing a research institute as a business is a good idea, but there is a limit to how far that analogy can be pushed.

Current Employee – been working at University of Alaska

Pros – Working in a University environment with students. Fairly good benefits except if you are a recent hire. In which case your only retirement option is a 401K. The defined benefit was recently eliminated by the Legislature. The University closes between Christmas and New Years so that is a plus for time off with family, travel, etc...

Cons – A large bureaucracy. It is a very political place to work. In some fields there is not much room to grow as this is a small university. Dead wood has accumulated in several departments resulting in a slow down of project implementation.
Everything is over studied to the point of stagnation.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow honest input from staff with out threat (implied or real) of retribution. More professional training. Staff needs to be updated for codes, regulations, etc...