Be sure you like it - because you can't change it - Anonymous employee Boston University Employee Review

Highly bureaucratic top-down management styles pervade -- starting from the overall leadership of the university trickling on down into many groups and departments. The "BUreaucracy" may have changed faces and styles over the years but it is alive and well. Change can be hard to fund and harder still to implement unless it is a mandate from above -- and even those mandates are generally the work of years of consultants and committees. Not a dynamic environment.