Does UCLA truly embrace EEOC hiring guidelines? - Development Officer UCLA Employee Review

1.0
7 Jun 2021
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Pros

(Some) talented and diligent department work colleagues. The professors. The alums.

Cons

I invite readers of these Glassdoor reviews to access the websites of UCLA colleges and their development (i.e., fundraising) departments. "Surface" the names and job titles of the fundraisers. (You might even get head shots.) Then ask yourself: do you see gender parity among their fundraisers? The fundraisers skew heavily female. In a contemporary workplace world of college graduates that is closer to a 50:50 gender ratio. Next, look up their Linkedin profiles. Access their educational attainment. Do you see a diversity of colleges and universities as their alma maters? No. UCLA disproportionately hires its own alums into their development departments. Where's the EEOC hiring diversity? The lack of hiring discrimination? "Alums hire alums." As a consequence, fresh thinking and new ideas and new practices never germinate. Groupthink and mediocrity are allowed to grow like kudzu.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
5 May 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent benefits, but not really as great as everyone assumes. Some colleagues who really care and do great work. Impressive students.

Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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