Houston City College – Central Campus — Attraction in Houston

Although the coursework with which HCC supplemented my university degrees was spread over several campuses, with one class in 2000 at one campus and several in 2009 over a combination of online and a couple of campuses, the vast majority of the experiences ranged from moderately good to very great. That having been stated, to the best of my memory, the one truly unsettling experience I had with HCC occurred at its central campus one day in 2009 when I returned to check back in a library book there, then requested a receipt, then things went downhill. After requesting to get a receipt, I then instead heard from a male HCC employee appearing at that instant to be of light-to-medium-light complexion a statement that he could not provide such a receipt, to which I responded a request for his name (such as to document it in writing for my records to indicate to whom I turned in the book, in case the library system might later allege the book to have never been turned in, and therefore, I could provide better evidence to substantiate that I really turned in the book, even if they would wind up with a mix-up or an act of sabotage), and he angrily answered that there was no way that he would agree to give me his name. I had communicated with him in a reasonably friendly manner, and I had never previously nor since had an encounter with that negative a library employee behavioral expression either there or at any other library. I decided that I would avoid checking out anything else from Houston Community College's library system unless and until it might ever make sense to change on that, with that employee's poor customer service resulting in a high degree of resistance to ever again setting out to check out anything from that library system, given that The Houston Public Library System and The Harris County Public Library System are competitors that have consistently provided great customer service and had never as of then (and still all these years later still never) provided such a negative customer service experience--or even perhaps one-twelfth as negative a customer service experience. Fortunately, the system did count the book as having successfully become returned and checked fully back in, yet for him to have had the nerve to set things up to possibly undermine some amount of my ability in the medium run to later, if worse had come to worse, with arguments back and forth, justifiably fight for the truth with compassion-and-wisdom-based righteous indignation, that was an issue. His commitment to procedural obstruction was in that case in many respects an abomination perpetrated by him. Yes, there are perspectives by which I can and do forgive him, yet everyone should at least in some ways reap whatever everyone sows. Perhaps ironically, the item that I checked back into that library that tine was one copy of the book THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. Did he feel an extra hostility toward that book, was he in a bad mood, was he having an awkward reaction to being very unused to people requesting checked-in receipts there, etc.? A mystery. However, I believe that the strange way that the aforementioned incident unfolded was an outlier relative to that community college in general, and, therefore, I am refraining from penalizing the central campus of Houston Community College for that. Overall, experiential evidence suggests that it is a good campus, with diverse medium-to-high-quality learning experiences available at highly-affordable prices, plus supplemental customer service experiences that could randomly be very up-and-down sometimes with the randomness of whom you might encounter, when, how, with which cultural artifacts focused upon, what mood the people you encounter might happen to be in at...

My first semester has been super stressful. I feel like the school board is dropping the ball a little here. Between financial aid with the bookstore 🙄 and just academics in regards to modules and courses being presented, who is responsible for going through and making sure this material is ready for the semester? I am getting the impression that these teachers are not being held accountable for that. I'm pretty sure I just got a B instead of an A because of the course being slightly a mess and confusing, which is irritating since I was only .80% away from an A and it is my first B in three semesters since I have started college (I am an A student thus far). Also, (and this is a big also) can we please vote to change the taxing district boundaries??!! How do we do this? Let's make this happen people!! I am in 77084, Houston city on my address, and I have to pay $140 per credit plus at least an extra $500 in fees per semester versus $80 per credit which includes fees for people inside the district. This is ridiculous. Why live in Harris county then?? Definitely making me second guess investing in real estate here. Especially considering this is a government run school! I'm having to commute to your campus and pay more fees. Lonestar does not offer an ID program. 77083 is inside the district. My neighborhood looks like, 2 miles from the boundaries. It makes me not like Texas. I moved here y'all. I transferred in from O.C.C., and It's a poor impression so far in that regard. The prerequisites in the ID program are too much. I saw one class yesterday that required 7. That's a lot! Why not just add a note saying take after this or last semester. Idk. I'm writing down all these classes and putting them in order myself since no one has met with me for a real education plan yet. Which I'm pretty sure has to happen immediately. (I just got an email saying I was assigned a counselor and it's 9 weeks in, no name listed.) Due to the prerequisites and the scheduling conflicts (most teachers like to split their class up into two days like we live in dorms at university and have time for this, we are just students after all, apparently) (which is also against Texas education btw, they are supposed to consider our lives and jobs yes.) a lot of classes are happening at the same time, and it will take me at least two more years just to finish. I want to say I have already completed 20 credit hrs towards the degree. I can't even take AutoCad yet because I have to take Space Planning concurrently with it, but Space Planning requires Basic Elements, which unfortunately I haven't taken yet. It leaves me at step one and waiting a year...two..three maybe. It almost seems strategically planned to doom you unless you are really committed and ready to go to multiple campuses at anytime FT (and it technically is a FT plan yes). This wasn't an issue for me at my old school. My dum dum planner says my expected graduation date is Summer of 2026...oh only you and I can dream little planner! Honestly, I'm a "displaced homemaker" and a "late bloomer" and I just don't have time for this. I'm too old! I guess I should have gone for being a dental hygienist instead, at least it pays way more, and is supposed to require the same amount of time!

HCC wants my opinion so they sent me a survey, but it said it's 20 minutes long, and the questions were numerous and extremely close together just on first glance. No thank you. Who has time for that?? Ridiculous...again, ridiculous. I don't care if you can pause and resume it. I would love to see a student in-person willing to sit down for twenty minutes to fill out a survey for HCC. Every last one would probably say no due to our busy schedules. You want my opinion? You get...

I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go to school here. The parking is horrible, I was an hour late on the first day of classes because it took me an hour to find a parking spot. I see all the employees get special parking and make it easy for them to park but the students get the worse parking. Where it’s located is on the bad side of town, I am so afraid to walk to classes from my car and I was so nervous someone was going to pop out and hurt me. The disability office, one of the employees are so rude and a jerk to his students with disabilities. I was told in the spring of 2020 that I was going to move up to the next class because my grades were good. I went into my profile to register for the fall and they decided at last minute that I got a failing grade for one of my classes. I called the disability office and brought my concerns to them because of coronavirus I wasn’t able to go there in person and talk to them. I spoke to the guy on the phone and told him my concerns and his response back was (if you failed the class then your not college material and you shouldn’t be here then) my mom yelled at him and said you need to show more compassion and respect to people. (He said if your daughter is failing then she shouldn’t be in college) if I’m not college material then why did I make all As and Bs in my child development class. That’s what else is the problem is the employee in the disability office, he’s so rude and gets mad that he doesn’t want to be there to help people and instead wants the money. Anytime someone would ask him a question or ask for help, he would turn and give dirty looks at them. When someone came in for help that was deaf, he used his hands to say go away. I felt that was so wrong of him to do that to a deaf person. I felt that was crossing the line. I decided to transfer to another college because I was so tired of driving all over the place to go to school. I got everything done at the new school but all I needed was my original transcripts to start classes but every time I would call for them to help me. They would constantly pass the bucket on me and would make up every excuse in the book not to transfer my original transcripts to the other college. It took a month for me to transfer them. I called the college and a lady picked up and I explained to her what I have been trying to do and she said (honey don’t worry, we can get those transferred over within 2 days tops) i was so happy and relieved because no one wanted to help me.

I transferred to a different school because I was tired of driving to different locations of this school.

I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go to any locations of HCC. 1 star for...