ACC reviews

4.2

84% would recommend to a friend

(552 total reviews)
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Richard Rhodes

79% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

ACC has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 552 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The ACC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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552 reviews
3.0
Jul 22, 2017
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Pros

Adjunct classes for the Early College Start program are usually on interesting subjects. I got to teach the British Literature class to high-school seniors and had a really good experience with Beowulf and other classics. There is a lot of freedom to develop the classes in the manner that you want, but don't go overboard because they do have some requirements, especially for the writing classes. Scheduling is usually pretty flexible, and as long as you follow the minimal guidelines and teach the classes well enough to get good reviews, then usually you have a "high recommendation" status for new classes.

Cons

As an adjunct, you don't really interact with other professors or other teachers at the schools where you teach. You can feel really isolated. I ended up emailing my teaching mentor from the first semester, so at least you have a point of contact that can be useful for brainstorming and even sharing stories. Obviously adjuncts lack all the benefits and pay of full-time professors (and even high school teachers, who essentially teach the same material as you do). Also, this is a program where high schoolers are skipping their AP/IB English classes to take "college-level" ACC courses, so public schools are basically saving money on full-time teachers by shoveling students into these adjunct-taught ones. My main frustrations, overall, related to management. The students and classes themselves were fine. I do wish that the high schoolers were given more introduction to college-level courses. I had to make the curriculum and format of the class a lot more similar to high school because they still didn't understand some of the basics of turning in homework and studying for tests.

2.0
Jan 24, 2017

Bureaucracy Riddled with Inefficiencies and Incompetence

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ability to directly assist students and your community, vacation/time off is extremely generous, decent healthcare.

Cons

Where to I begin? The HR department needs to be gutted. They never return phone calls or emails queries, have a subpar on boarding process (it doesn't exist), send out communication with private information (letters, emails, etc) to the incorrect people, and make the similar errors when submitting paperwork to healthcare providers and retirement accounts. Everything stems from HR.

2.0
Sep 10, 2016

mired in bureaucracy

Anonymous employee
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Pros

nice atmosphere, some friendly people to work with for the most part

Cons

It is nearly impossible to get anything done without filling out endless forms and getting endless approvals. To have a simple piece of furniture moved from one room to another requires a ridiculous amount of effort. Very competitive and insecure in some departments that I won't name here as the people probably read this and are deservedly paranoid. Immature temperaments of some supervisors a real issue. Hiring Committee process a redundant waste of time. You can't transfer to another campus, even in the same position, without being interviewed again as if you never worked there.

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