Walden University Reviews

Pros

This is a Great Place to work!

Cons

To date, I do not have any cons.

Pros

Fully remote. Lots of flexibility. Can work on your own hours for the most part. Just need to attend meetings during work hours. Rewarding to see students grow as scholar-practitioners. Immediate coworkers are great.

Cons

Company lost its soul when acquired by Adtalem. Now the focus is profits over people. Upper administration has no idea what they are doing. Initiatives are haphazard and typically put more demands on faculty without compensation. Minimal raises and almost no bonus the past two years. Work never ends. The university runs on 4 quarters with two weeks in between, but that time is still full of finishing grades from past quarter and setting up the next quarter's classes. Students send messages at all hours of the day and on weekends. With the expectation of returning a response within 24-48 hours, there is never time off. Even if you ask for vacation, you never get to fully break away. When you come back, there is twice as much work to get done because no one can totally take over your courses or mentees. It's a continual grind with no prospect for promotion. The only thing to look towards is administrative work, which sucks the life out of every coordinator and director I've seen at that level. No professional development or support for attending conferences. Burnout becomes an issue over time.

Pros

Rewarding to help students complete dissertation and doctoral study program Some flexibility in the number of students you work with

Cons

Walden charges students so much, and you, as a faculty member, are playing a role in their debt accumulation Pay is not great for the amount of work (the pay per hour work varies by the student and by the month)

Pros

Work from home is a benefit

Cons

Work from home was incredibly difficult. No leniency on hours, we were expected to print things on our own dime, and cost of living is overlooked. Adtelam has doomed Walden. If you have a second job or have a family steer clear of Walden or any Adtelam school.

Pros

Supportive program chair. Good mission (University's), well developed courses

Cons

VERY inconsistent course work. In addition, pay per course has dropped.

Pros

There was nothing good about working here. It was a hazard to my health.

Cons

Leadership micromanaged everything. Our department specifically would work incredibly hard to never get raises, bonuses, or anything else. The nursing students calling or chatting in treated us like garbage. Pay was horrible and benefits were not great. Barely got time off.

Pros

Remote work culture, good colleagues

Cons

Corporate nonsense at every turn

Pros

Experiencing first-hand how NOT to approach institutional "transformation"

Cons

Adtalem senior leaders fail to communicate strategic goals and directions for the institution--if, in fact, they have a plan. Senseless tasks without preparation or context are required with urgency. The "community of care" is an hypocrisy when workforce members are stretched to the limit without respite.

Pros

Ability to work from home Co-workers are great

Cons

Feels more like sales then education Management is horrible but leadership is worse Benefits are not the greatest

Pros

Remote work, snack boxes, $5 gift cards...

Cons

The environment at Walden/Adtalem promotes extreme micromanaging. Employees are treated as unprofessional baboons that do not even have the capability to formulate a basic email even though a higher level of education (Masters) is required for the position. I guess this would make sense considering they accept anyone who has a bank account or gets federal FA. Number, numbers, numbers is all "leadership" cares about. They need to maintain enrollment to keep up with all the upper-level positions with 6 figure salaries, while those actually interacting with the students barely get a live able wage.