Davidson College Reviews

The first thing you'll hear from anyone is the pay. Salaries are far below market rate, and the Davidson area is no longer cheap to live in. The school will continue to lose excellent folks due to the low salaries and lack of opportunity to advance within the organization. While there are many excellent folks in departments and in administration, there are also several completely toxic units/departments. No strategic thinking is done in these dysfunctional departments. HR is not good at understanding violations of employees rights.

When people leave Davidson, they leave Davidson for financial reasons. The salaries are not competitive, and medical benefits are meh and prices are rising. The college recently began a new yearly budgeting process that requires every department to shave off 7% of its annual budget to be "reallocated." The process is even less transparent than it was before, and employees are generally displeased as it appears that the reallocations go to pet projects. Staff are legendarily regarded as second-class compared to faculty, and unfortunately there are many situations in which this is made painfully clear to staff.