Absurdly low pay for the huge workload. They will exploit you for decades at more than full-time teaching load while artificially classifying you as part-time. At least half of the faculty have no business holding an academic position. Most are unemployable at other institutions and are thus unusually thrilled with their crap job and lackluster professional atmosphere. The place has the least regard for a few esteemed faculty as any place I've worked. It caters to the lower end. Estimates are 120% of industry standard in work load with about 60% of the pay. Try 12+ teaching hours per semester at ca $37,000 per year or less. They continue to create new high-paying administrative positions and virtually never improve the work conditions of their faculty. Now... with all this energy and money directed towards expansion, capitol improvements and bloating the administrative ranks, there is a 2 million dollar shortfall. Guess the faculty can't expect things to improve anytime soon.
The place is a joke and you are penalized for sticking around and most only do it because the school is in Boston. Let's see if the faculty would stick around if Berklee were in a small midwestern town.
