Rock Valley College — Local services in Rockford Township

I have been attending RVC since fall semester 2011. I have been muddling through numerous unecessary prerequisite classes, most of which are taught by teachers that don't want to be there. In the last five years I've been going there, I have seen countless teachers that are unresponsive to phone calls and emails. This is hard to go there in the first place because I don't think any of us truly want to go to school unless we know what we want to do for a career, which is very rare. On top of the teachers ignoring their students, this is one less stress we all need aside from our personal lives. I have also been battling through the lower level math classes for quite some time. I started in 091, and failed 092, 093, and 094 once before retaking them again. I have had seven teachers in these classes, (different after I failed the first time) and Jeremy Chamberlain has been the best one. I have had foreign accented professors- which is uncalled for. On top of already not understanding the material, we have to hang on to every word they say! We are paying students and this should not happen when we are trying to get through these tough classes. Aside from Professor Chamberlain, all the other teachers I've taken are either foreign accented or they don't know how to teach the class. The result of these teachers I've had have been dropping the class, or failing. All of the students in my 094 class now have taken the class before once or twice -if that many students are failing the same class, what is this saying for the teachers? I have been to the tutoring center and had one good one, but her schedule is always booked. The others I've had have asked other tutors in the room how to teach it because they didn't remember the material. I get the run around frequently in the math center, as there isn't a teacher tutoring there at the time I come in, (which there should be one scheduled at all times, especially in the afternoon!) or there aren't enough of them in there. I have also seen teachers having outside of class conversations with students while sitting and "trying to help" the student they are with. I'm so tired of wasting my time and money there, I'm so close to my associates degree but if they don't have the teachers to get us through, I feel like throwing...

I've been meaning to write this review for quite some time now. I took the CNA course here a few years back. I was one of the older students in the class, as most were just out if highschool, and I was in my mid 20s. I loved the class and really learned a lot. After getting my CNA license I did private duty home health care in the rockford area until moving out of state. Then I transferred my license there and began working in a skilled nursing facilty. It seemed like I knew a lot more tips and tricks, for lack of a better word, to making the job easier and more efficient while making the residents happy and keeping them healthy! At RockValley I was also taught great customer service skills for the job that are absolutely necessary in the nursing field. In just a few short months I was promoted to Admissions Director at the nursing home with my only relatable experience being the short time as a CNA. Without the skills I learned at RockValley I would have never had such an opportunity to shine amongst my coworkers and be offered a great position. When I started the CNA course I didn't know if I wanted to eventually become a nurse, so just know there are definitely other avenues after the CNA license, that's just the first step to many opportunities. When I first applied for the CNA course, it was completely full, I only got in after someone else dropped the class. After a couple years my life has completely changed for the better, and could never have been done without RockValley College and their CNA course. Forever grateful for the awesome teachers I had that helped me better my life. I highly recommend...

Many of the teachers, specifically the male teachers here tend to be VERY arrogant towards their students which is very demeaning and disrespectful. I have no idea why this is. The Environmental Teacher Mr. Joey Holmes is the most conceited one I have ever witnessed(BEWARE!), he is excessively proud of himself and he'll make sure you know that. He also cannot handle his special needs students who have trouble processing information as fast as others. I witnessed him literally yell at a special needs student in front of the entire class when he was asking him a question, he wasn't even lecturing at the time. He also has a daily routine of pointing out everyone who is struggling in the class for unknown reasons to the entire class by mocking them or making faces at others as the victim hes humiliating isn't looking. This isn't even the worst of it, his suggestive anti-gay behavior is something to be wary about as well. While he's doing all of this he's either clearly agitated or putting on a smile. This man is a bully quite honestly. Rock Valley needs to sort out the bad teachers and get rid of them. College is a place to learn not be disrespected. As for his teaching skills, let the comments of RateMyProfessor explain that to you, the complaints about him all add up. As a fellow Belviderian, I just wonder why everything down to the community college in Rockford has...