Ambitious, but no resources and poor management - Avis employé Assistant Professor UTAR

-Haven for deadwood. People who have received multiple warning letters over the years are still hanging around, polluting the environment. -Lack of reputation makes it hard to get good graduate/post-graduate students. -Management doesn't appreciate the time of its professors. Eg. hired a cheap mover to a new campus and asking professors to do the packing of equipment rather than getting a professional to do it. Unfortunately, lacking of packing equipment as well. -Poor IT infrastructure and services, but attempting to move into "e-learning" without sorting out all the existing issues -Socialist mentality (downgrading the ratings of the outstanding and raising the ratings of the incapable) -Asking for the impossible. Eg. told by the Dean to keep track of your students who don't attend class by giving them a call to find out their problem. Trouble is, we have huge class with sizes of more than 200 or 300 students. -Asked to meet 6 KPIs for bonus: (1) undergraduate teaching, (2) postgraduate supervision, (3) publication, (4) administrative duties, (5) outside consultancy work, (6) research grants -There are NO labs for post-graduate students. Your post-graduate students will have to share undergraduate labs and leave when undergraduates have class labs (which is for most of the semester). Terrible research environment. You CANNOT produce good work here, but then again, you are not asked to. Just publish in mediocre journals and await your promotion.