Not an institution of higher learning - Professor Wiley College Employee Review

This is the least professional place I have ever worked. Power is centralized in a small number of VPs that are tasked to perform a variety of tasks that would normally be rolled into lower functionaries. Example: dorm rules violations are adjudicated by a VP as the first level of response. They then use this power as a reason to micro-manage every aspect of employee life, filling it with useless meetings and reports. The school is so poorly run and desperate for money that they admit any applicant, and enrollment continues through the 12th class day. Effectively, this means that classes don't begin until the third week, and many students choose not to show up until that point. Academic standards don't exist. There is an internal policy that students should be administratively dropped after six absences in a given class, but the administration is so worried about getting the federal financial aid from those students that they prevent faculty from enforcing in. The same is true for academic integrity. Many students complete none of their assignments during the semester, then ask to complete them all immediately before finals. Professors generally allow them to, because the administration makes it clear that student failure is the fault of the professor. This campus culture is broken. Lack of punctuality is rampant, with most students (those that attend at all) not showing up at the designated beginning of class. In 50-minute MWF classes, I have personally witnessed, time and again, students arriving at the 30-minute mark. Although the administration seems to generally disapprove, their position is that those students should still be allowed in "so every student can succeed." That is, unless they are wearing a hat, sagging, or doing anything else to violate one of the signs posted about how a "Wiley Man" comports himself. Sagging is definitely an offense that mandates removal from class.