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Santa Clara University

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Lovely place to work and teach. - Assistant Professor Santa Clara University Employee Review

4.0
21 Jan 2015
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Pros

Beautiful campus. Polite students. Supportive faculty. Moderate support of research in terms of funds. Close community. If you are able to do some research, and not dedicate too much time to all of the possible service opportunities, you can have a nice work/life balance. Family friendly university.

Cons

No graduate students. The university does not require, or reward, excellence. Many very intelligent faculty have a great deal of time on their hands to be concerned with committees, faculty senate, and student evaluations of teaching. This is fine, but there isn't always the social support to enable strong research because the culture demands a great deal of service. Also, this salaries within the College of Arts and Sciences are low, especially considering the extremely high cost of living in the Silicon Valley right now.

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Pros

Flexible time and chill work

Cons

Pay is not high enough in the Bay Area

2.0
15 Feb 2026
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Pros

-On-campus housing but you pay for it with less monetary compensation and working 24/7 -Healthcare/dental benefit -403b - but you have to stay for a couple years before you are vested.

Cons

-Poor leadership - violate common sense boundaries. Beware of Heather Dumas-Dyer. -They underpay employees (it's too low for the Bay Area and amount of work they request) -No work-life separation or balance due to them overworking employees. You are expected to work 9-5 and then engage in evening/weekend campus events while also being on-call after-hours and responding in person so you're working all the time. They say it's expected for exempt employees. It's no wonder people burn out. -They lock you into a term contract so you have to find another job before you become homeless. They have terms so they can systematically cycle people out of the job and there's no accountability for them to treat the RDs well (their term will be up and they'll be gone in 2-4 years). -They talk about nice values and pleasant/team-supported work but it's a lie. They don't practice their values.

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