Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Taylorsville Redwood Campus — Attraction in Taylorsville

The Worst college in the state of Utah. Horrible staff. Beware of the low class woman BULLIES who work in the W.Jordan testing center! They will treat you like a piece of garbage and humiliate you in front of everyone. I was very pregnant and it was summer semester. I used to like this college but it has gone downhill. The addition of the testing center I thought would be great but the "ladies" that work there were anything but that. They were vicious and rotten. I simply told them I wanted to take my test and told them my name, and they made a very irritated face and let out a scowling sigh and scoffed at me " UM OKAY.. WHAT TEST?! Why are you coming in here unprepared? you don't even know what class you are in?! hah! " They treated me as if I was an idiot and not a human being. I hate confrontation. Completely rotten and hateful people running this place! I got very defensive because I have the right to stick up for myself and my unborn baby! I told the old mean "lady" to learn some manners and the other younger looking very plain jane snotty girl rolled her eyes at me and started giggling and whispering in a catty manner to the other old lady when I was waiting for my class mates to get there to take their tests as well so I could warn them to make sure they can read minds and know exactly what to say so they don't get humiliated and treated like a piece of trash like I had just been. When I stuck up for myself they all ganged up on me. The 3 invalids that work there all ganging up on me while I'm almost 9 months pregnant all because I DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO ASK FOR? ALL BECAUSE I COULDN'T READ THEIR MINDS and know that so many people have been irritating them to the point they have to have a chip on their shoulders any time a new student walks in not knowing exactly what to ask for and tell them exactly the course number and test number it was? I didn't know.. And it shouldn't have mattered. No other SLCC testing center did things that way. They were all helpful and kind. Great customer service but this place, no not at all. I was hoping after I stuck up for myself but sadly to say I just found out from a few of my friends that they are still demeaning and major BULLIES and they have a very bad reputation on campus. Anyways, the "lady" that sits in the office in the back she was very mean, meaner that the older "lady" that originally was mean to me. She was so fake. She kept trying to use bull.Sh* psychosocial tactics on me saying fake things like " I can appreciate how upset you are, but that woman who talked to you like that, she just is so fed up with students coming in here and not knowing which test they are taking, she has a good heart and you had no right to be upset the way you did. However they weren't treating you bad, even though I can appreciate that you might take it that way" on and on and on.. Slap in the face after slap in the face! They gave me such a horrible day that day I quit my schooling at SLCC. I hated that college. I transferred and finished somewhere much more professional and grateful to their students who bring them business and actually care about their students. This place does not at all. It's a joke. I was told by another student that a teacher grabbed her arm and told her to pick up a tissue she had accidentally dropped. I would say that was grounds for battery.. In the medical world you are taught to never touch another person without permission or you can be sued. My sweet husband helped me transfer to phoenix after I came home that day crying to him about how humiliated I was and the anxiety it caused me. Those 3 bullies made me no longer have any respect for all of SLCC and the teachers I was growing to respect. When they did that to me I felt like SLCC did that to me. It's sad that someone can be so old and still not know how to treat another human being. What a wasted life. What sad unhappy woman trying to bring others down with them. What a bitter shame. There is a special place in hell for women who don't help...

Everything from financial aid to admissions to parking is a joke. This place has the worst case of bureaucracy I have ever seen. Any time you ask someone a question they tell you they cant help you and to ask someone else. I went back and forth between financial aid, advisors, and admissions a million times because they didn't know the answer or they weren't allowed to answer my questions. Countless holds on my account with financial aid which screwed up me being able to sign up for the classes I needed to. They would tell me I was awarded funds and then all of the sudden I try to register for classes online and there are holds on my account and late fees. Nobody would notify me either which was really infuriating. I would ask financial aid if there was anything else I needed to do and they would say no and that I was awarded x amount. Later would get alerts and holds because a paper wasn't filled out or this or that. I got late fees for mistakes that the financial aid office screwed up on! I ended up saying screw it and payed my tuition out of my savings account!! Parking police are nazis and gave me a ticket while I was going into the Student building to buy a pass. When i told them what had happened they didn't care and still made me pay the ticket!! Ridiculous. The tutors are hit or miss. Half of the tutor staff have no idea what they are doing or what material is being covered in physics and calculus and will give you wrong answers or just confuse you further and waste your time. Don't get me wrong some were good and helpful but you never know which one you will get and its hard to go there and waste your time hoping that the good tutor will come to you. The teachers are also hit or miss and good luck getting one that is good because they will only teach at one time and everyone books their classes as soon as registration starts. After 2 semesters I am finally saying screw it and am applying to the U because this place sucks big time. Only reason why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 is because their gym is awesome. Racquetball, basketball, and two rooms with all the machines and weights you...

I just graduated with my associates degree! SLCC was the place for me. Truly everything about it as an education experience was phenomenal. The class sizes were small, allowing me to get to know my professors and ask questions. The knowledge I received seemed to be just at the level I would expect from a university. Every professor I had seemed genuinely invested in my learning and success.

SLCC also has great resources, the DRC was great, free tutors helped me integrate the info, the academic advisers were generally (more on this in a bit) great, the food pantry for food insecure individuals is great, the financial aid office was helpful, the transfer events, you name it. It all was great. They offer many courses at many different locations. And ALL OF this was for a very reasonable price (look into SLCC promise too for help paying for school).

2 small but important critiques. First, the free bus UTA pass they offer for students (and faculty) is awesome! However, as a student who had to take classes at three different campuses having to get a bus between them could take up to 1 hour!! they used to have inter-campus shuttles which would get you from the main campuses in about 30 minutes. I Would like to ask for their return and make them even quicker! Also, with many locations (which is great) I think it's important to look further into offering more courses at each one (for example most of my science courses as pre-health were limited to Taylorsville or Jordan)

Second, the staff where all awesome! With that said, I think some improvement could be made in general academic advising. They were always kind and thoughtful when I went to them. But often I felt confused after leaving or like my question was kind of half answered. I know they're general advisers so it's a lot to expect to have them know so many different things but I think some more training for them on how to help students would be great.

All in all SLCC is a great institution to get into secondary education or boost your career options! I would go there again in a heartbeat! Thank you for the quality...