Pros
This place used to be one of the best places to work in Peoria, up until the last three or four years. Now, I'm at a loss to come up with a pro, even out of pity.
Cons
The management is very aloof, and removed from the "regular" workers. There is a clear culture of superiority among the upper management. The supposed president's "open door" policy is completely nonexistent except on paper. The upper management gives no decision making power to employees, and requires an unsophisticated micromanagement approach to running business. The president and CEO is usually unseen around campus. Either she is shut in her office, and guarded by 2 to 3 assistants, or (as is most often the case,) she is completely absent from the campus to attend Grateful Dead music festivals, or jetsetting on tropical vacations. The management in unpredictable and moody; some upper management is prone to bursts of rage and cursing in the office, as well. There are little to no pay-raises, unless you are a member of the family. Family members who have received pay raises are not shy about sharing this information with "regular" workers, either. Much of the management is family, and nepotism is the norm. Very few of the family staff members have little-to-no real college experience, and even fewer of them hold actual degrees; yet they are frequently and regularly promoted and rewarded, while hardworking, non-family-members go unseen, unrewarded, and definitely unappreciated. Tuition has literally doubled in the last 8 years, and little-to-none of it goes back into the school, facilities, employees, etc. Every couple of months, a new "family member" appears, and is immediately given a previously unused title and position at the school; meanwhile hardworking, dedicated employees, who are not family members, are belittled, ignored, or even fired arbitrarily when a family member needs work. The management is known to "overlook" low entrance exam scores in order to keep a minimum number of students enrolled on a very regular basis. When a student scores too low on an entrance exam, the upper management would often overrule the low score, and push the student into a program in which they are not academically prepared to succeed.
