There is little room for advancement in most situations. Performance reviews don't mean anything, and you can be given more and more responsibility as time goes on without the equivalent salary compensation. Management will promote certain people while overlooking other, often more qualified, people, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of logic behind it (it's favoritism, let's be real). Hard-working people have constantly been overlooked, while their lazy managers and coworkers do less work and get promoted ahead of them. I often had my work taken by others and passed on as theirs, and because some of my duties overlapped with those of my coworker, it was often assumed that my coworker was excelling while I was stagnant with no rhyme or reason to this assumption.
There is no safety for those who belong to marginalized communities. If you do not fit into mainstream, affluent evangelical culture, you will have a difficult time here. The school denies racism and claims to be against it, while some of their tenured faculty actively and blatantly try to get rid of people who speak up, and also try to get rid of studies and majors that discuss social problems. Marginalized employees are often gaslit to believe that the problem is them, and that they need to give grace or have patience. The leadership is largely made up of affluent white Americans, which means that most of the decisions being made naturally benefit other affluent white Americans (both students and staff). When you do not have a diverse leadership team, you cannot possibly claim that you want to have a diverse student body because nobody with decision-making power has to context to make decisions that benefit marginalized students. Minority students often recognize that Biola loves diverse wallets but cares little about actual diversity. I had been told several times when trying to spotlight marginalized students that the system they already had in place was fair, and we should not try to showcase diverse students if they weren't chosen based on the current criteria (which was just votes, and it does not make room for nuances).
This place will bleed you dry and then accuse you of not giving more.
