SWIC Southwestern Illinois College — Attraction in Belleville

Poor communication amongst several departments. The school wants to hear your opinion and what is wrong and what is right, however, in truth they only want to hear what is good and refuse to tend to what is wrong. how are you supposed to fix what is wrong if you don't hear both the good and bad? Getting someone to respond back to you can be exhausting. The dean and the president of the school, even when asking for a meeting, will not respond. How can you truly help educate when you do everything to avoid making the experience of going to school or coming back to school a good one? Students are afraid to speak up because the instructors have the ability to retaliate with their grade for their transcript. I have offered to present numerous people, present students and previous students to the school who would love to have a conversation, yet the school ignores that option. it's quite sad and concerning when this school has the ability to be phenomenal, yet the management is horrendous.

Edited: In response to the school reaching out to me today. I have reached out to you all. Numerous times, numerous ways, numerous people, numerous surveys and nothing. I am not a millennial and I do not believe in posting stuff straight off the bat to social media without giving the person, business or institution the opportunity to have a conversation and fix it first. How are you supposed to fix something that you do not know about? This is the reason why I take an old school approach. I have stated an emails whom I have had or tried to have conversations with. Essentially you all have my name and number. You all know how to get ahold of me put some effort into it if you truly want to have a conversation.

As you can tell, I do not have a problem putting my name to this. I have nothing to hide. You all...

Being both a student and an instructor gives me a unique perspective of the college. I have found, on both sides, that a student will only get as much as they put into a course.

A lot of of the students seem to feel that since it is a community college that they should be able to slide through the 2 years. And when they are challenged they complain about it instead of actually learning the material.

I had one student complain that, even though all the material was available, the instructions did not state which files should be modified. The person's response was that it wasn't fair not to tell them which files to work on.

As a student I found that all the classes I've taken have been challenging to different degrees. I've taken electronic, art, German, and film classes all with different levels of difficulty. I've...

I second the compliments about Latrice Brimmage in Academic Advising. She was very helpful in advising me. She PERSONALLY helped me such that it seemed relatively easy to get started at SWIC compared to how it might/could have been. During my enrollment process I came to realize all the obstacles that young people face and have to overcome to start in higher education. So many times these days you are told to go to such and such a website but Ms. Brimmage took a personal interest in getting me enrolled. She knocked down those obstacles and smoothed the way. I intended on stopping by her office and thanking her personally but my first semester, Fall 2021, flew by and I forgot about it. Btw, I'm a non-traditional, older, ...