Muscatine Community College — Local services in Muscatine

My entire experience at MCC has just been so negative. Signing up for classes has been a nightmare, being signed up for the wrong classes to go in and switching to the correct classes. Demanding large down payments for classes in order to attend in case FAFSA doesn't kick in in time, and then when FAFSA does and grants go through, EICC (MCC) refuses to disperse refunds and overages back to the student. Anytime I've went in to try to speak to somebody such as somebody in financial aid or the business department. They are always in meetings and can't speak to anybody or they are not here. You get told the same thing over and over which is to make a call and set up an appointment for another call but then they don't ever call you back so you're stuck in this continuous cycle of just trying to get a hold of somebody. Then you think you can just call somebody at one of their connected schools such as in Davenport or Clinton and then they act like you're completely crazy that you can't get a hold of somebody in Muscatine.

Then finally you sign up for classes and you're told a couple weeks in that half of the staff at eicc is in the process of leaving due to changes made last year and the classes and certifications that you're seeking probably won't be offered by next semester leaving you absolutely screwed. This is my current predicament.

So you're thinking "well, MCC would be a great place to go, knock out my GE classes and some of the prerequisite classes and transfer to a state school like University of Iowa or Iowa State," right? But then you find out that they have such a bad relationship with nearby schools far into the center of Illinois and all through Iowa. That many credits won't even transfer. How is it possible that University of Iowa will accept credits from a partially accredited University such as Penn Foster online but doesn't accept credits from a nearby Community college? Can you imagine taking a hard class such as calc 2 and then trying to transfer to a University and then having to go back to calc 1 and then do calc 2 again? This is the reality for a lot of students that go to MCC that want to work towards four year degrees.

I'd say half of the classes offered only certification courses, You aren't working towards a degree. For example, one of my classes is a workplace safety class online. So I paid the school over $1,500 to take this class and then I have to pay an additional $100 to go online to the OSHA site to certify myself for a 10-hour OSHA workplace safety card. And then after I'm done I screenshot my score from the OSHA website and send it to the instructor and then Bam Im done. How could a community college possibly justify this?

Eicc's business model is pretty simple. Appeal to local high schools and pull in high school grads with "free credit hours."

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