College of Southern Nevada North Las Vegas Campus — Local services in North Las Vegas

Run for the hills. I have never dealt with a more dysfunctional college in my life. The importance of attention to detail is extremely important. Let me share why.

My name had changed with the school and I followed all steps to get that completed. My teacher so graciously put my grade as an F instead of an A. All because she believed my name was on her roster as a mistake. (I am sure there is some way that I could have been verified...ya know..student number, maybe.) This snowballed a mountain of problems. It started with financial aid. I was denied financial aid because the F that was added dropped my GPA terribly. I then had to run around (3-4 times to the schools) from the English dept to the financial aid office and so on. The financial aid office did me a favor and put a hold on my account so I wouldn't be dropped from classes due to an error of the school. A month later and I had finally gotten the grade fixed appropriately. Then last Friday at 5:30 pm I received a letter that I was dropped from my classes by the cashier's office. HOW??!! When there was a hold on my account. So, yet another negligent action by the school. Now because it was Friday and a three-day weekend (MLK) and 5:30 pm guess who I could get in contact with to fix THEIR issue, AGAIN? You guessed right folks....NOONE. Now here we are Tuesday and classes have begun and I have had to go to the financial aid office to try and get everything squared away. My ONLY blessing from this school has been Ms. Angelica in Financial Aid. This lady is hardworking and goes a million steps beyond what she needs to. She truly needs to go to a different school or receive a huge raise and be a trainer for that department. She is doing all she can to get me back into my classes that I was wrongfully dropped from. I am currently awaiting that decision.

So folks, see how one person's actions have spiraled into another screwed up action and has now put the student ("victim") in the situation I am in. All I am saying is do your job right folks. If you're considering this college....good luck. This has been a terrible experience and isn't even the first time this school has messed up. I have also only been here for two semesters and it is a joke.

P.S.- all while sitting and waiting there was an academic advisor talking to one of the ladies so rudely. Tall, skinny, African American male, with a super loud voice whose office is next to the financial aid computers. Completely degrading tone of voice and speaking to her like she was an idiot...which she wasn't because you could tell there was a bit of a language barrier.

Then another lady, big, curly hair, African American woman came over to me and told me I could not sit there after being directed by the financial aid lady that I could. I told her this and as soon as the financial aid lady came up her tone changed quickly. Like, drop your attitude folks! I explained to you why I was sitting there ....talk to the financial aid office if you don't want people there! Your eye roll and attitude was...

★☆☆☆☆ – Unsafe, Dehumanizing, and Poorly Managed

I attended the Basic Rider Course I at CSN North Las Vegas expecting professional instruction and a safe learning environment. What I got instead was an unsafe, negligent, and humiliating experience that left several of us physically and mentally drained — and it wasn't from riding.

Key issues:

• No food or water breaks. Over two full days (14+ hours), we were only given two 10-minute rests per day. Students repeatedly requested a break to eat — at least five times — and were denied every time. We were forced to ride in full gear on an empty stomach and still expected to pass a high-stakes skills test. How is that safe?

• Two students crashed. One was pinned under the bike for several minutes. Instructors slowly walked over while yelling at others for helping. Where was the urgency? The care?

• Unsafe conditions on the range. A large gasoline spill was left unattended on the practice range. Combined with dirt mounds and gravel, it created a clear hazard for beginners.

• Instructor behavior. – Nigel was hostile, loud, and condescending, berating students for following the very instructions he gave. – Jeremy gave conflicting or incorrect directions, confused students further, and acted like a self-styled guru while misnaming parts of the bike. – Both made inappropriate jokes that made several of us uncomfortable.

• Inappropriate physical contact. One instructor grabbed my hand and forced it onto the throttle. Not only is that wildly unprofessional, it was entirely unnecessary and could’ve gone badly if I hadn’t kept calm.

• Negligent equipment. The bikes were clearly not well maintained. We were expected to manually push 500-lb machines around for hours, often on a poorly prepped surface, while exhausted and hungry.

Management follow-up was even worse. After raising these concerns, I received a gaslighting response from the program manager (Laurie), filled with deflection and vague justifications. She downplayed everything, praised the same instructors I reported, and ignored the real safety and ethical issues entirely. That's not accountability. That's spin.

I’ve passed high-pressure programs before — military, civilian, technical — and I know the difference between high standards and pure dysfunction. This wasn’t “tough love.” This was poor training, disrespectful leadership, and unsafe execution.

I still walked away with valuable skills — but not because of the instructors. I learned despite them, not because of them. And I paid $150 for that clarity.

Future students: be warned. If you value safety, respect, and professional instruction, skip this program. CSN should seriously reconsider lending its name to something this careless and...

You get what you pay for (sometimes) I've attended this school for most of my adult life (over 10 years). I've experienced good professors and I've experienced lazy ones. I've experienced passionate professors and I've experienced halfhearted ones. All being said, enrolling as a business major for my first degree, I remember professors like Mr. Raiford. Then I remember my passionate political science teacher (who will go unnamed) teach the class in his prospective of a "blue, progressive" manner. Challenging him whenever he injected his personal believes and became part of the discussion. He didn't like me correcting him about the Federal Reserve putting "in god we trust" on our currency. He tried to telling the class that government was responsible but I quickly corrected him by stating it was a private entity and by doing so they could put whatever they wanted on there. The school can be a great place to learn. I've witnessed other online schools pass students on poor work. I can appreciate the education I've received here and I will always carry that knowledge moving forward. I don't think CSN has a strong social community, nor does it have a strong leadership presence. I would recommend to my friends and family to attend CSN as a stepping stone. It can be less expensive as going straight into...