Understanding the Kenyon Community
There is a distinctive brand of community that is Kenyon's. We believe that individuals are not limited to who they are on paper, where they have been, or what they look like.
Kenyon’s greatest strength is a focus on teaching and building relationships. Close interaction with students is the rule here: professors and staff become mentors and friends. There are many opportunities for research in the sciences, programs connecting students to our rural surroundings, and opportunities to perform, sing and play. The Kenyon experience fosters connections of all kinds — to classmates, teachers and friends, to the life of the mind, to global perspectives, to our own unique traditions and history — to become a place of inspiration.
Our academic requirements are flexible enough to allow for exploration and recurrent questioning. In addition, our distinguished literary tradition carries into every academic division (fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences) so that everyone at Kenyon values and utilizes a strong history of written communication.
What You Can Expect From Kenyon
Kenyon's established employee relations policy is to:
- Operate an economically viable institute of higher learning so that a consistent level of steady work is available.
- Select people on the basis of skill, training, ability, attitude and character without discrimination with regard to age, ancestry, genetic information, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, political belief or disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions.
- Pay all employees according to their effort and contribution to the success of our educational mission.
- Review wages, employee benefits and working conditions periodically with the objective of providing maximum benefits in these areas, consistent with sound business practices.
- Provide paid vacations and holidays to all eligible employees.
- Provide eligible employees with medical, disability, retirement and other benefits.
- Dedicate ourselves to Kenyon's overall achievement and success.
- Develop competent people who understand and meet our objectives, and who accept with open minds the ideas, suggestions, and constructive criticisms of fellow employees.
- Assure employees, after talking with their supervisor, an opportunity to discuss any problem with the appropriate senior level division head.
- Make prompt and fair adjustment of any complaints which may arise in the everyday conduct of our business, to the extent that is practicable.
- Respect individual rights, and treat all employees with courtesy and consideration.
- Maintain mutual respect in our working relationship.
- Provide buildings and offices that are attractive, comfortable, orderly and safe.
- Promote employees on the basis of their ability and merit.
- Make promotions or fill vacancies from within Kenyon College whenever possible.
- Keep all employees informed of the progress of Kenyon College, as well as our continuing overall aims and objectives.
- Do all these things in a spirit of friendliness and cooperation so that Kenyon College will continue to be known as "a great place to work!"
What Kenyon Expects of You
Your first responsibility is to know your own duties and how to do them promptly, correctly and pleasantly.
You are also expected to cooperate with management and your peers to maintain a good team attitude. Whatever your position, you have an important role in this institution and we ask that you perform every task to the very best of your ability. The result will be better performance for Kenyon overall, and personal satisfaction for you.
We strongly believe you should have the right to make your own choices in matters that concern and control your life. We are dedicated to making Kenyon a place where you can approach your supervisor, or any member of management, to discuss any problem or question, and we provide the resources to do so.
We expect you to voice your opinions respectfully and contribute your suggestions to improve the quality of Kenyon College. Your dignity and that of fellow employees, as well as the dignity of whom we serve, is important.
Kenyon needs your help in making each working day enjoyable and rewarding, concretely enacting our mission to “afford our students and ourselves a higher sense of our own humanity and to be inspired to work with others to make a society that would nourish a better humankind.”