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Can't Afford Adequate Cost of Living Adjustments - Tenured Full Professor Governors State University Employee Review

2.0
3 Mar 2024
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Pros

Students, schedule, kind and caring staff. The mission is amazing.

Cons

Does not pay wages that remotely keep up with inflation (long term issue). In addition to COLAs, meaningful raises are far and few. We have instructors and staff making slightly more than student workers. Why? The county/state is raising the minimum wage and they are forced by law to pay the student workers more. Administrators somehow manage to get COLA's and raises though. Not sure I could sleep at night taking a raise while my staff get little to nothing...but I guess that is just me.

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5.0
7 Feb 2026
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Pros

The work environment was great. There was a lot of camaraderie among us all. My responsibilities were fulfilling. I received a lot of mentorship from my supervisors.

Cons

The only con was the fact that I was remote in Long Beach, CA. They are based in University Park, IL.

2.0
14 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

State benefits that help those in the right position

Cons

They coddle under performing workers too much and the make it real hard to let go of them under the guise of some "woke" methodology of giving way too many chances. No wonder the university is losing money with under performing employees doing the bar minimum to collect state employment benefits

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