St. Louis Community College — Local services in Champ

I started off at this school years ago and you have very few teachers that care about the students, years later guess what it's still the same way, so this has to start from the top and the people that they hire at these schools. We pay to receive our education, which is an exchange, we the students pay and the teachers receive the salary for the job that they do not do. Your job is to deliver what you know to the students, sad to say it may be 10% of the teacher do that. I had a great English teacher just excellent, a great psychology teacher that it. The good teachers get up out of Saint Louis community college. If the teachers got paid by what they deliver to the students more students would learn something, because the teachers will deliver what they suppose to in order to get their pay check. It's about the pay check and not the people. This would be another Idea, the students only pay if they learn something. This have been an horrible experience up in this school but if you really want it you have to keep fighting for it. The science and math department is horrible and the teachers, their is loop holes in the system and they need to check in on this department even from the top. They sit in those offices like a god and do not focus on the students but just taking up a sit because it is available, what is the point, my heart goes out to the generation that is soft spoken you will get anything at these schools. The advising department is lazy and uninterested on their job as well, they are not friendly and their faces show that they are not interested at all in anything that has to do with that job. They wait until your last semester is over and graduation to tell you what you need, and after your graduation, to go on to your new level which sets you back two semester. I am shock that the government pays to waste money at this organization. It felt like a funeral at the graduation that was horrible as well, the music they played and the speech they gave was just horrible and they let us out by the dumpster when the graduation was over and we had to walk for 15 minutes to get around to the front of the building, I am disappointed in this whole experience, think twice before going to any of the saint Louis...

So the issues started this semester. I was paying out of pocket for class but was unable to this semester. I applied for FASFA but was denied. Instead was given CARES ACT grant which I’m cool with. The problem is the CARES ACT GRANT goes off of attendance. Meaning you have to show proof of attendance before the grant will be awarded. I need the grant to pay for the access code needed for the class, logging on that website shows my proof of attendance for the class. The professor for the class is not given ppl a 2 week temporary access code to help students with financial difficulties, and the college does not allow me to add the balance of the access code to my student account to pay off with my class unless you receive FASFA which is terrible idea when you have students paying out of pocket. The idea of going to a community college is for affordability and flexibility but this process terrible, disappointing and very discouraging and pointless to continue an education here if it’s not going to be flexible to my needs. Also when I called to the bookstore to just come in a pay for the access code and get it in hand instead of mailing it I was told that they are only doing shipping no walk-in. The problem is if you are allowing students to come on campus to take classes and study then the bookstore should be open as well for the convince of students like me when time is sensitive and in general if you are allowing student to go to class on campus. There is NO sense of urgency nor understanding from the staff. I feel like stlcc has set me up to fail and the first week is...

Literally impossible to get ahold of an advisor. And when you do get ahold of an advisor, they don’t even know what they’re talking about. When I was finally able to get ahold of an advisor last spring to speak about transferring to this school, and what other prerequisites I would need for the Rad Tech program, the advisor recommended I take classes over the summer to ensure I had all my prereqs ready for the coming fall program. I spoke to her so many times on the phone from March-now and told her so many times my biggest worry was just needing to graduate as quickly as possible. Out of all of the conversations we had, she assured me I would be on track to start the program this fall and would take Anatomy 2 while starting the program. I did my job shadowing, sent her the information she needed, she submitted my application. A day later I receive an email from the rad tech department saying the waitlist to enter is 2-3 years??? So I should have applied to the program before even starting any prerequisites? This is devastating news to me and it’s insane that the advisor I spoke to for months wouldn’t ever mention this. I haven’t even started this school yet and it’s clear how little staff cares about its students. I gave up my summer in order to ensure I would start this fall. I relocated to STL per my advisors recommendation in anticipation of starting this program this fall. I am sitting here with 2 years of prerequisites for a major that has a 2-3 year waitlist, in a town I moved to specifically for this. This is...