Southwest Tennessee Community College - Union Avenue Campus — Local services in Memphis

This college is great for students but staff,certain staff members, makes it a horrible uneducated exjperience for students. Professor Bobbie Shaw who teaches Psychology and for my daughter during this fall semester at 6:20 a. M. To 7:20 a. M. was very sneaky, dismissive, arrogant, rude, judgemental, had discrimination, played favortisimn and extremely ironic and widely cruel. My daughter made it clear to her to not speak to her in any rude manner, demean her but intelligently my daughter knew that she wouldn't stop because she's just to arrogant. She did not like to let my daughter to ask questions, gave her terrible looks, was always ignoring when she would raise her hand and called on another student. Shaw pointed in my daughter's face when she stood up to her almost touching her jaw, which I would have beaten her ass if so and dismissed her own class for her if she did and she would've had a warrant for her arrest a police report filed. It's sad to see your own child come home asking what happened she done to constantly have a professor who isn't deserve of the status to constantly mistreat your child other students and in result take her own personal insecurities out on on my child's grade. My child an A and B student the least she she should have given her is a C. Only 3 people would make good grades on her exams because one would cheat and the other developed their own way of study. Which was confusing to me because I have seen the exams, she makes them completely harder than usual and always mentions being scholarly when she in no way isn't. She plagiarized book materials and told students would be on the test but changed the information in ways that was hard to compare to the book. She puts in her syllabus noplagirism and she clearly needs rewrite it. Shaw didn't accept my child's work during the first week of class because the assignment was not placed on her desk, which location of work wasn't placed within the syllabus. Many students would ask about thier grades when she walked through the door was overly excited answer them but as soon as my daughter Shamuriel Bush would ask she would cut her short in a loud tone and say with her hands up in the air I'm not answer any questions about the grades only see me after class. She has given students extra points to out of thin air to aggravate my daughter and make her feel small as well as to persuade the other students to hushup about ways she treated everyone and what they witnessed. My daughter had enough and decided to report knowing that Professor Bobbie Shaw would take her grade down and mistreat her still but she wanted to start a change and stand up to a big old deranged bully. She is a bully, but she licked the right one to show her real inner core. She gave my daughter a 66 wrote aD beside it and circle it. In my dictionary that's an F. She reported Shaw to Mr. Lipped the chairman over the Psychology Dept. My daughter complete here 10 events typed with 2 dates of events and theory. My daughter was the only one to have that completed and everything was accurately done she stated and she didn't seem proud to give props but she did in a sneaky ways cause all eyes were on her and also her project was completed. Shaw gave her an 80 as final project grade because she didn't mention names and didn't double space. My daughter was smart to tell me she's gonna check-in Paws to see if she did her job as a teacher and put in the grade accurately. Shaw changed the grade y'all to 70 without calling or emailing my daughter as to why. So my daughter emailed her over that following weekend 2 times before the last week of Friday and of course no response. She's made smart remarks to my daughter during class and tried to blend it with the lesson but everyone started to get sick of her bullying. Continuously every year this brand get multiple complaints from students, parents,coligues and students from different countries. She has the lowest worst rates out of the whole TN state and southwest TN community College. DO NOT REGISTER...

I really don't know if the people that work here just show up and start working with no training whatsoever, or if they just really don't care. When you declare a major, you are assigned a faculty advisor. Mine has been ridiculously hard to contact and set up appointments with (I have to email her several times before she responds) and doesn't show up to some of the meetings. These types of experiences have been mirrored throughout my time there. Recently, it's been a month long process trying to fill out my "intent to graduate" because my faculty advisor doesn't know how to help me fill out the necessary forms so she has been telling me that she is trying to get the information necessary and hasn't followed up (no matter how many times I've reminded her). Maybe, if you are going to assign advisors to students you should train them on how to advise!!! This is just within the advising department... The Cashier's office and Financial Aid offices are even worse. The lack of organization and follow-through is appalling. They have promise refunds and then gave crazy excuses as to why I never received them. Just recently (this is not the only time this has happened) I was supposed to have been eligible for a "Community Assistance" scholarship. This was to pay for my tuition in full. I received repetitive phone calls and emails saying that I was getting this money, but they only started notifying me the day before tuition was due. In order for me to not have my classes dropped, I went ahead and paid my tuition. Then a month later, after calling and calling trying to see when the refund would be ready, they tell me "You can stop by the cashier's office tomorrow. The check will be ready then." So I show up and they tell me that THE CHECK HAD BEEN VOIDED BECAUSE I PAID MY TUITION... Needless to say I was HOT. Not only had they strung me along for over a month, they never once stated that I should withhold paying my tuition to receive the scholarship. And even if I HAD withheld my payment, my classes would have been dropped!!! Just save your emotional, mental, and physical energy and go to the U of M. At least you can get...

if you are a transfer PLEASE READ haven't even started here yet but my experience with the people are makes me stressed...and just sad and pisses off. I'm a transfer from Owens Community College in Perrysburg Ohio. I would have start at Southwest 2016 fall semester but it took them way to long to get my transcripts because they are to lazy to check there mail. And I was planing on starting this semester 2017 Spring semester but it seems that no one in the financial aid office knows that they are doing. I call to asked a simple question about financial aid but it the person who answers the phone was admissions and doesn't ask what my question is to see if she can answer it...she's all bitchy and says I have to go to the school and talk to the financial aid people in the ABC room. Even tho I was there yesterday. When I went there yesterday a financial aid lady named Mrs. Lewis had me fill out paper work so my classes wouldn't get deleted...but I guess she didn't know what she was doing because all my classes got deleted. Does Southwest really want student to go there?? Do they really enjoy there jobs...cause I'm really thinking about going back to Ohio and finishing there where the professors actually enjoy what they do and are...