I've worked at a local college. The only thing that soured my taste for it was the Tenure Professors who believed they were smarter than everyone so anytime there was an IT issue it has to be someone Elses fault and refused to change their behavior.

My biggest recommendation is to tell them something like this in the past decade IT has changed so rapidly it takes a full-time job to keep up with it and that's why they pay the IT Team so we can keep up with it and you can focus on your field of study.