High Point University Reviews

For the love of God, do NOT be an RD here. They will trick you during the interview process into thinking you have a normal RD job. Most of your job falls under "other duties as assigned" Turnover in this job is tremendous and they have no plan on fixing it. Being on call is an absolute nightmare, this school hand holds X1000. A kid get his glasses stolen at 3AM? You get up and personally check on him. A student trips on the sidewalk and needs a bandaid at midnight? You better get up and check on them within 10 minutes or else you'll be written up. A parent wants you to wake his kid up for a test at 8AM? (btw there is 0 student accountability) Go do it and don't ask any questions. You are a PROFESSIONAL babysitter. Management likes to say that you are part of a team, but if it's a team....you will be the underappreciated, abused water boy and they will be the football players. Management is also completely unqualified (i'm talking like a DIRECTOR of an office with a BACHELOR'S degree). As far as the university as a whole goes, this is the one memory I have that accurately sums up this place. During an all staff meeting, the President of the University begins talking about someone who has worked at the university for 30 years and is leaving this year. The President then begins to talk about how the staff member commented about how he wished he had been given a higher pay raise over his time here. The President then goes on to talk trash about this staff member IN FRONT OF ABOUT 400 PEOPLE, saying things like "Yeah, can't wait for him to leave, good riddance you miserable person! Ruin someone else's organization!" TACKY. This is what the President of the University said about someone who worked here for THIRTY YEARS. You will be treated like pond scum. This is a "drink the Kool-Aid or leave" type of place. Do not do this job under ANY circumstances.

IT is terrible. There are not words for how bad IT has become in the last 3 years. Top level management is dreadful; they are unable to manage projects, train employees, retain knowledge, or provide for the needs of campus. The treatment of employees is deplorable. Employees are cussed out, the CIO constantly threats to fire people or strangle them, and staff are regularly subjected to inappropriate, unprofessional, and abusive rants, both in person and via email. Also, don't expect to ever know when you will be allowed to go home every day (that's right, you're an adult but you're not allowed to leave if a team member is working on a problem that you have nothing to do with). As a result of poor project management and insanely high turnover (well over 50% at my last count), something is on fire literally every day. If you arrive at 8:30 and leave at 5, you will be publicly humiliated. And HR doesn't think that threatening to strangle employees is a hostile work environment, so good luck getting any help improving the conditions. Basically, if you want to be treated like a human being and advance your career at the same time, while also not becoming an alcoholic, look somewhere else.