Pima Community College Reviews

Pros

- The students are mostly nice - I get a good deal of freedom in my course plan

Cons

- As an adjunct, I get just over 2K a class after taxes - I get no health insurance or other benefits

Pros

Interesting, capable, and friendly faculty colleagues. Hard working and appreciative students, most who are first-generation college students. PCC is the educational bargain of the state. Such an excellent education for less than $85 a credit hour. You have to wonder why anyone in southern AZ would pay $1500 per credit hour for the UA.

Cons

A truly bloated, overpaid, and unimaginative administration. Rude staff members who treat adjuncts like the administration trains them to do- like unskilled, lowly paid grunts. Ask part-timers to do a lot of unpaid work, including more than 15 hours of unpaid mandatory training this year. It's absolutely outrageous, disrespectful, and possibly illegal (at least I assume people are supposed to be paid for being at work).

Pros

Nice people, mostly. Decent benefits.

Cons

Horrible organisational culture. Like gerbils they eat their own. They fail to get rid of poor performers. It takes forever to get anything accomplished.

Pros

Reasonable training and focus on students

Cons

Poor communication, no unilateral communication, unbalanced workload, lack of internal mobility

Pros

Good benefits. 1 month paid time off per year. 2 weeks sick pay per year.

Cons

Dropping enrollment. Untrusting upper management. Layoffs.

Pros

Higher education is a critical component of our society.

Cons

Beyond the culture of abject incompetence, I have never witnessed a workplace with greater animosity towards its' part time employees. They treat you like nameless cattle. They make it clear that you are "lesser" in every way. Maybe it's to make themselves feel better about how terrible they are at college administration. When the Higher Learning Commission comes around they scramble to put lipstick on a pig, lest they lose their accreditation - something they have had issues with for years. They don't care about their people and the people, in turn, provide terrible customer service to the students. It's a terrible cycle. There is not one person that I've spoken with who enjoys their job or thinks Pima does a good job managing staff. Mostly, everyone has low morale and is totally jaded.