Northampton Community College — Local services in Bethlehem Township

I'm currently moving into my second semester at this college and let me just begin with one of my Intro to Computers professors. For starters, my professor wasn't even a professor. He was one of the IT guys on campus that they just picked to teach this class. He taught us well, but was terrible at inputting the grades for our assignments, thus making us "fail". Overall, my professor was a nice guy, cracked a few jokes every once in a while to make the class more enjoyable, and was somewhat easy to speak to about things. But like I stated above, he was terrible at inputting grades. Our final grades for the Fall 2015 Semester came out online about a month ago. He put in my final grade as failing, even though at least 65% of my assignments from MyITLab (an online application that taught us how to use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) were not input into Blackboard, where our final grade is calculated and posted. I contacted my professor via email immediately about the situation, because the final grade that is shown, is holding me back from applying to FSU. It's been about a month since emailing him, so NCC advised me to contact the dean via email. So I did as I was told and explained my situation to the dean via email. The dean answered me within 24 hours of me contacting her, and told me that she would let my professor know that I had contacted her about the situation. Not even 5 hours later of receiving the message from the dean, my professor FINALLY answered me. In his email, he said that he only input the Word grades from MyITLab, and put the Excel and Powerpoint grades in a spreadsheet. (sounds rather odd, if you ask me. if the assignments were completed, why would they not be included in my final grade?) He also accused me of not being in class on the review days for the final when final grades were individually discussed, even though I was 120% there and we even discussed my grades on those dates.

Overall, I am not impressed with this college. It's a great place to go if you're trying to save money, or you don't know what you want to major in, etc. Other than that, I'd advise you to...

I'm a freshman at the college at the time of writing this review, and if I have to edit it throughout my time here I will, but for the most part my experiences at this college have been positive. Some of the food is a bit on the pricey side for its quality, specifically the pizza, but the subway-style hoagie bar is my go-to for lunch. The college has a great view on extracurricular activities and does its best to give as many students as possible a period from 11:00am-12:30pm to participate in clubs they sign up for. The teachers are generally good-natured, understanding, form individual bonds with their students, and in my experience have gone above what is expected to accommodate the needs of the class. The apartments on campus are a good option for on-campus living, though I can't speak for the dorms, and some of the policies in place about their meal plans being required for your first semester are ridiculous as they are expensive. They have a less-than-favorable policy that just began this year that gives each student a $25 print queue for the entire semester, and each page printed costs 10¢ and is only in black and white, and yet in the cost of the tuition you are charged a $500 technology fee that one would expect to cover a larger printing budget. The campus WiFi has decent range, though is not exceptionally fast, and the college website works about 80% of the time. Good option, but it's definitely a community...

Where to start..... re-enrolling for business admin after a degree in admin. Pretty sure any of children in the children's center would have been better advisors than the first one I had as she passed me off to admissions, had no idea what she was talking about, and downright REFUSED to help me enroll in classes saying she "doesn't do that, you have to do that online but I can show you how on this computer." The next day the second gentleman was a little more helpful but again, got nowhere. Advising hold, needed a specific advisor for my program [he was the one to tell me that] but he at least got me a name. Meanwhile another advisor is emailing to set up an appointment [not the one I needed]. I contacted the one I needed, I'm not even eligible for that program due to a pre-req not being met [hours of time being wasted to find this out fyi]. Get in touch with the one that has been reaching out, my advising hold was magically lifted, no one claims to have done it, register for classes other guy cancels his appt, make payment #q all good now..... fast forward 2 weeks it's time to make payment #2. I go to the Bursar's office only to be turned away because the Bursar's office does not accept payments 😳😳. I'm starting to remember why I took an extremely long break and a long time to get my degree . I'm even contemplating paying the out of county fee to transfer up...