Pros
Good benefits, great people. Academic life is engaging and fun.
Cons
The university is at the forefront of corporatization of higher ed, which means the administration grows and grows, both in salary and numbers, while everyone else suffers. This fall, Instructors in Writing Programs will experience an increase in workload of 25% in the form of an additional required course to teach each semester. As a result of how this has been implemented, we will suffer a pay cut in yearly pay come August. We have lost our hard-earned merit raises, the raises we earned over 10 or more years. It is demoralizing and disgraceful. The students will suffer as well as a result. Their instructors will have less time for them and they will see less challenging course content. The President of ASU earns nearly $1 million, yet those who are earning around $30-40K per year are the ones who make the sacrifices. I love this university, so it's been disappointing to see how they treat their long-term faculty.