Seattle Central College — Local services in Seattle

It started when I went to the Seattle Central College Disability Support Services on Monday 6-11-18 at 9:00 AM to get my accommodations because I am a student with a disability that needs accommodations to be able to succeed in my classes like every other student. I met with Al Souma the disability Counselor/Faculty and Cebrina Chavez Program Coordinator in their office.

I asked nicely for Al Souma to check his email that would explain why I was meeting with him on Monday 6-11-18 and the accommodations that I wanted so I could succeed so Al Souma "asked me to explain the email" so I did and said I would please like an accommodation letter with the accommodations that I requested and all of sudden Al Souma got close up to my face like our noses literately could of been touching each other that's how close he got and Al Souma said "I am not going to accommodate you what you gonna do about it" I almost fell out of my chair and I could tell he looked like he might be reaching for a weapon so I told him I am going to security and all of a sudden I had major breathing problems and so I left the Disability Support Services office trying to get help looking for security but no security guard was at their post.

I had to walk up to the 4th floor to the administration office to get help all the way from the 1st floor and when I got to the administration office where the presidents of the colleges are and "I asked for help please call security and explained Al Souma might be armed and call 911 I cant breath please help me" the secretary tried to reach security and told me "no I am not calling 911" I could feel I was about to die I was fainting and I kept saying "help call 911 I can't breath" and that went on for 2 to 3 minutes that the secretary kept saying "I'm not calling 911" then Angelique Odom Executive Assistant to President Sheila Edwards Lange Seattle Central College walks out of the corner and says "Well I guess you should just call 911" as if she did not care and I am still saying "help me" and no one is helping me I am still about to run out of breath and pass out everyone was just staring.

When the secretary called 911 she did not really want to answer their questions once so ever and they never followed protocol by having the 911 people hear my breathing issue. She was trying every power she could not to answer their questions. She hung up the phone I am still asking for "help I can't breath" it took a while for security to come mean while everyone in the administration office just staring at me like it is all funny and no one even asked me hey do you need an inhaler, paper bag or water they just stood their as I was slowing dying away. When security came he tried to ask me what was going on and wanted to call my parents and we where able to get my dad on the phone at first and he said he would be there soon.

The Fire Department came and said your breathing levels are really high and the other scary thing was the fire department was trying to make up every excuse of why I was breathing so heavily and did not want to hear my side of the story "I tried to explain to them about my disability, also that I am highly allergic to almonds and that I feel scared for my life and that there is a dangerous man on campus possibly armed with a weapon." Plus neither did they asked me if I needed an inhaler, paper bag or water. They did not even really want to do their jobs I tried my best to asked for a report they said "you can't get one" now in my mind as I am still having breathing issues I am thinking to myself I never heard of that before not being able to get a summary of the report. I felt like it was over for me if my dad did not get there because no one was trying to help. The fire Department never did their jobs correctly neither did the school where I almost died...

Not a great choice for students taking classes from home…. During my time at this school I felt very unsupported.

Pros: Affordable Transferrable programs

Cons -very little communication from advising, bad attitudes and unhelpful. If advisors are overwhelmed, they need to hire more.

-very little communication from financial aid.

-confusing student portal, interface and flow for enrolling in classes is a counterintuitive mess.

-most instructors communicate very little, don’t thoroughly read your assignments, and are almost always late posting grades/feedback. Feedback and correction is useless on the next assignment, if I don’t get it on time. With the exception of some diamonds in the rough, I felt that the instructors were practically non existent. (Thanks prof. Kirkland :) !)

-Instructors in STEM courses need to provide more resources. I had a geography course where I had zero communication, support, or research provided from the instructor. In contrast, the art history class I took had an amazing instructor, provided dozens of videos and lectures, lectures were up to date, and I DID feel supported. Kind of sad when your STEM instructors can’t keep pace with art electives instructors.

I’ve taken courses in person and online at multiple community colleges. There are better options out there, move on. For over a month I attempted to reach out to advising, registration, and FA and nobody could simply help me get signed up for classes. I received multiple condescending emails, pointing me in a triangular goose chase between reg, FA, and advising. Now I have missed out on thousands of dollars worth of financial aid for classes, because someone couldn’t email me back and help me. By the time I DID receive a phone call, it was an advisor with a snarky attitude who seemed amused to inform me that all classes were full. Thanks a...

Dont even bother coming here, stay away like plague. The Allied Health is an extreme joke where they plan intentionally to confuse and harass unassuming students. Joni Whitsitt in particular is a disgusting racist, arrogant, illiterate individual who has never acquired any kind of degree, much less do simplest math or ever run the class AV machine. She has no reasonable or organized proficiency assessment, but rather this arrogant individual only passes whom she likes in the class. She will design tests to fail half the class, having never explained or covered anything in class and then suddenly allow only the students she likes to do a makeup exam. She is extremely disorganized and always comes to class complaining how she was overworked at some other job and has no sleep or time for students here. She will text and call the entire planet to try to dig up negative information on persons she decides she doesnt like. If you just look at her, you see she has a nervous uncontrolled tremor, but she has the audacity to look at people and tell them they have no motor skills and insult them saying they cant learn. She repeatedly uses vulgar and degrading language in class but then goes around blaming others for her inappropriate language. Just another huge obvious reason this school has no interest in their students, the teachers have zero academic credentials or ability to teach and they put arrogant degrading illiterate individuals like this in managerial teaching positions simply to harass and intimidate unassuming students. Zero stars, only a negative rating at best and stay away from Allied Health here...