Hinds Community College - Raymond Campus — Local services in Raymond

During COVID, I returned to Hinds to simply increase my knowledge. It has not been to the standard that I knew when I attended Hinds 2014-2016. It has plummeted!

I was given the wrong books by the bookstore for my Summer 2021 classes and was CHARGED for them although every student was told that classes AND books were FREE (took 2 weeks to then get reimbursed).

This 2021-2022 school year has been even worse to where I am actively looking to finished my classes elsewhere. I was charged for books that I am not using yet Hinds will not give me back my money…. YET AGAIN.

Even the classes that I am taking this semester, the professor (because it’s one teacher for all 3 classes) isn’t much help in it. The students are basically teaching themselves to zero help from the paid professional in the class. It’s not to the standard that I knew Hinds at.

Also, Angela Easterwood (GM of the bookstore) talked to me as if I was some child and not a grown man. Attitude and scornful behavior should NEVER be tolerated, especially from a person that is employed by a committee college...

I don’t go to the school in Raymond I go to a different campus. The financial aid counselor has a weird schedule at my home campus so, I usually just talk and fax things over to Raymond. Just because it’s more for convenient for me.. When it comes to financial aid, you have to be careful who you speak with. Some of them are not experienced, I would assume. I was told I owed thousands of dollars. Then I called the business office and was told that’s untrue. She told me that I needed to speak to someone different. So I call again and I speak to someone else and they figure everything out. I actually didn’t owe anything.. I just had to turn in certain documents. PLEASE be careful who you speak with… I still have issues with some people I speak with over the phone. I just don’t think I should have to speak to 5 different people to figure out my financial situations. That alone is extremely stressful. I guess I’ll stick with my...

I withdrew after two months of being here. I called the financial aid office or wherever they directed me to so that I could get a loan breakdown on why my pell grant didn’t cover two months of school and also why I’m repaying a $1600 loan. FOR TWO MONTHS OF SCHOOL?!?! Anyways.. fafsa told me they are legally obligated to give me a breakdown of this. Instead of them doing so she decides to belittle me and act like i’m a child? She also told me only the loan servicer could do that (when i know that’s false since i called the loan servicer and fafsa and they both told me the same thing). The rudest lady on earth and quite possibly the worst person for the job she has. This was my first time attending Hinds but I should have never strayed away from Holmes. Please go there if you want to save money and have staff that...