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Many teachers, with some notable exceptions, don't care about their students or their jobs. Complaint issues with students is handled incompetently in my experience, I don't personally feel safe trusting my academic career in the hands of some of the staff that works here. Figure out professionalism.

Had interpersonal issues with another Vet there, who I debate to name, and she reported me to the school. What she told them exactly, I was never told. They handled it by trying to tell me not to make use of the veteran's lounge resource and essentially ostracizing me from the veteran's community there. I live alone and have few connections to family so the lounge was one of the few places I could have social interaction in a given day and the whole, needless to say, added some serious undue psychological stress to my studies. I walked on eggshells at all times while on campus, stayed away from that area for multiple quarters out of fear of academic consequences. I was unable to attend some regular events and interact with some clubs and communities to the depth I would have liked because of these issues for fear of running into her by mistake and my degree being in danger. Even after it was shown that she falsely reported me, the damage was done to my life and the 2nd half of my time there was much worse than the 1st. They rewarded her by giving her a job. I don't claim to be perfect in the situation, but I know that I dis my best to treat everyone with respect and particularly in the vet lounge, to try to treat people in a way they could feel safe and welcome, not only because many vets end their own lives due to not being able to connect to others but also because I know what it's like to not to have that.

Advisors are great though in my experience. Couple professors here for some important math classes are pretty bad which puts a big hamper on meeting grad requirements due to either a gatekeeping attitude or just pure apathy, not sure what it is but they need to figure it out. This is a community college, where people with jobs and real lives come. You need to get your head out of the clouds. Pretty decent gym, get some bumper plates in there.

2 stars because at leat they gave me my degree in the end, after no small amount of obstacles.

Edit: updating this 5/21/25...

I took classes here on a partime basis from 2016-2020. I already had a degree, but was attempting to get into a post-bac nursing program. I truly had a wonderful time here. The anatomy + physiology course series has access to actual human cadavers. I did more dissection and lab work here than I did in my undergraduate time. I really liked the microbiology course (which I had to take entirely online due to the beginning of the pandemic) and I loved all the application projects the teacher had throughout the course. It prepared me really well for the rigors of nursing school. The teachers were available, respectful, and straightforward with their expectations.

I had a lot of challenges in that I worked full time while taking these courses. I found the teachers to be mindful of this, while maintaining the integrity of their classes. Ultimately though, you need to be ready for the reality of working full time while taking these courses. The SCC system has to maintain rigor to prepare people to transfer on. If I could go back to high school, knowing what I know about NSC now, I never would have gone to a four year private university first (and saved myself about 40k in loans in the process) because the academics are just as good. The campus and community are wonderful too.

I got accepted to Duke University's ABSN program, and graduated from that program this month (May 2022), so I say with first hand experience that the NSC coursework holds its weight to other 4 year universities when completing...

Choose another school. They were sub-par before Covid and have only gotten worse. I’ve personally experienced everything from an instructor dropping a class the night before the quarter began (they tried to salvage that by bringing on another instructor who knew nothing about the subject), instructors who have required personal changes to standard MLA formatting that of not followed would result in a 0 grade, instructors who recorded/wrote material 6+ years ago and haven’t updated it since, instructors who refused to use CANVAS, and one instructor who insisted that their materials were under 50$ for the course (it was actually closer to 200$) and when their chosen external software & textbook company didn’t work were unwilling/unable to provide alternatives for the coursework that was due, instead suggesting that the students contact customer support because “it’s not their responsibility to fix technical issues with course materials”. I’ve also witnessed a handful of instructors ostracize and make fun of students in an attempt to “gel” with the rest of the class.

That being said, I did have 4 excellent instructors, if you decide to attend here I hope you can...