Georgetown College Reviews

There really aren't any downsides

Compensation: VERY low pay for a great deal of expected off-leger work. Despite advancing in qualifications, I was still paid the same as a less-qualified candidate and was turned down when requesting a raise, given the situation. No support for co-curricular student activities and programming - had to pay all of these out of pocket. Treated like an adjunct, paid like an adjunct (and they expected me to act as anything but an adjunct?). (Lack of) Collegiality: I was always the youngest faculty member in the room, and was treated like I wasn't even there. Mentoring options were non-existent, as I was never acknowledged by other colleagues (save for my chair), even in adjacent fields. Faculty do the absolute minimum for their jobs and do not a thing more - no sense of collegiality, community, or investment. No professional development opportunities or course support funds, despite being promised them in interviews/negotiations. No explanations of or introductions to key campus resources - had to find and develop these myself, with middling reception at best. Students: Students feel like they're being taken advantage of, as many do not stay past 1-3 semesters - even students who have great potential are driven away, leading to abhorrent student retention rates. Subpar student admissions and engagement - the average grade in most of my courses was, at best, a C-/D+ (and I don't have grossly high expectations). Most students openly express that they don't even want to be there - in class and at Georgetown. Students are sheltered, insulated, and are either completely absent from courses or openly combative in courses that challenge them and their worldviews. A few gems sparkle through, but most students fail to meet even less-than-baseline standards of comprehension, much less application and utilization. Absolutely no sense of student engagement past attending classes - if they even managed to do that. Getting There: Commute felt like the longest 25 minutes of my life. Supervision: Administration and staff ignored and failed to accommodate severe medical issue. Administration ignored multiple instances of severe plagiarism regularly in effort to keep the peace and maintain student enrollments. I was requested to pass several students who should not have passed - and had committed several gross acts of plagiarism. Many of these students were permitted to graduate without penalty or review. Infrastructure: Aging infrastructure is NOT accessible to those with mobility barriers, and very few buildings have appropriate temperature control! Students consistently complain of health hazards (black mold, lack of functioning restrooms, etc.) in dormitories. Classrooms seem to lack baseline resources and are far from approaching needed technological upgrades to enable student engagement. Absent tech support. I honestly do not know how GC continues to operate as such. There is seemingly no room for "new blood" at such an established institution - and no interest in changing with the dramatic shifts in student needs or learning modalities.