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[School] Arkansas Tech [Issue and Date] This is a great place if you are not progressive, have no aspirations, are lazy, can function in a rigid good ole boy hierarchy, and are perfectly comfortable with mediocrity.If, on the other hand, that is not you, be prepared to be vilified and left jobless after working much harder than any of your colleagues. This statement is obviously written by someone who was disgruntled with Arkansas Tech because he/she could not work well with colleagues and wants to blame others for his/her faults and lack of social skills. No, the statement was not "obviously written by someone [. . .] who could not work well with colleagues [etc]." From an objective standpoint, from someone who has never even heard of Arkansas Tech before I saw this Wiki page, the snarky response seems as telling as the original post, and not necessarily in a good way. After working in Arkansas for the last 10 years I can attest to the statements in the OP. It seems as the description for Tech also applies to all of Arkansas' state school/ccs. This is the nature of the state. They do not like new ideas and if you weren't born and raised in the back woods of Arkansas, then they just don't get you. Can say from experience this is not true of all state schools in Arkansas. Try to avoid speaking in terms of "all", or "natures", and the sinister "they", sounds like old-fashioned stereotyping. I agree we should not stereotype, but I have also been teaching in Arkansas for the last 10 years and frankly if you are not from this part of the country, find the good ole boy thing difficult to deal with, and are not a compliant woman, stay away...taking a job here has been my greatest mistake..and don't tell me to leave because I am stuck her fror personal reasons...at least at the moment. "taking a job here has been my greatest mistake": "here" as in Arkansas or "here" as in Arkansas Tech? Here in Arkansas. Speaking as an urban woman (Boston, New York, Atlanta) who has spent long periods of time in the deep south, I have to disagree to some extent with the Arkansas poster. Arkansas shares in that very conservative, agriculturally-based, Southern Baptist culture that makes up a lot of our country. It can indeed be frustrating. However, every one of these states has their own "crunchy" post-60's art-culture haven. For Arkansas, try Fayetteville, Eureka Springs, and a bit of Little Rock. There might be more. Either way, and this is the part that really bugs me, there is a long and strong tradition of non-compliant women and men in this culture. Life can be tough in a poor state, and you will find some impressive and amazingly resilient people in unexpected places. Don't close yourself off and you'll find that the "new south" and the "old south" have plenty to give one another. After working at "Tech" on the tt for several years, all I can think about is getting the f***out of here!! And I've lived in the South my entire life. This is a whole other world. The place is a nightmare--it will suck your soul up and spit it out, where it will just blend in with the other horrors, both institutional and regional, of the place, and no one will notice that you've become one of the walking dead that inhabit the campus. There is absolutely no intellectual climate and not even a pretense at one, which is almost as depressing. Do not come here if you can avoid it. And yeah, Little Rock and Fayetteville (always held out as oases, even though, in the end, they would just be normal cities in other Southern states) will not save you. This place is a joke. This sounds exactly like Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). NWACC rules via the good ol boy netweork by fear and intimidation and is riddled with "academic mobbing", bullying, supression of freedom of speech, sexual harassment, cyberstalking, wrongful expulsion of students, and the list goes on and on. NWACC is toxic and I recommend staying as far away for there as possible. I wouldn't work there, nor would I be a student there. Have a look at the NWACC Corruption blog: http://nwacccorruption.blogspot.com [Department] 
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