Toccoa Falls College — Local services in Toccoa

As the parent of a graduate from TFC, I can share that while my daughter found the campus to be situated on beautiful landscapes with much to offer, she found TFC leadership lacking in abundance. The student population was kind and inviting while allowing for connection and community. While there is racial diversity there is much to be said about the lackluster social and economic diversity present on campus. My daughter and my husband and I found leadership uninformed and unable to connect much less meet the needs of students beyond their majority represented demographic. Our daughter witnessed firsthand the flagrant dismissal and sometimes maltreatment of students with needs. While attending, she was aware of a student's disclosure of rape to leadership that was not only overtly dismissed, but instructed to not report to local authorities. The student victim withdrew from enrollment with no report being made. The now retired Nancy Hyndman, who was chosen and supported by current leadership to serve as a facilitator to students with disabilities and exceptional needs repeatedly belilittled students for what she deemed "weird", "not a disability" or "a waste of resources". Those students having clinical documentation of remarkable needs including, autistim, hearing impairment, dyslexia, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders just to name those I am directly aware of. Students who only had the expectation of their services being provided as agreed upon when enrolled. As a professional pediatric patient advocate I was disgusted by the maltreatment. My daughter sustained a hed injury due to unmaintained ramps and when Dr. Bob was engaged by myself in regards to the incident he cited her recent "smile" as his reasoning that she was fine, despite his knowledge of her doctor instructed transport to a regional trauma center. He made no effort to offer compassion or even prayer for her after her avoidable injury. Further, another wheelchair bound student sustained a fall from an improperly installed ramp in the same semester and reports a similar response.

While yes, TFC offers biblical education and our daughter graduated with her degrees intended in 4 years, she, myself and my husband would be hard pressed to recommend this institution to anyone. While scripture is largely present throughout the classroom and materials, the application of it by leadership is heretical. Leaders who chose to leader under the banner of the teachings of Christ are to be held to a standard that TFC leadership clearly...

Overall, pretty decent experience. The friends i made, I absolutely love. Education department is primarily geared to elementary and secondary suffers. Teachers can be super judgmental and make it hard for you if they don't like you. They don't tell you when you graduate the education program you won't be certified anywhere and they still make you take the Georgia teacher tests ($300). So if you're leaving Georgia, it's a raw deal. If you're looking for solid Biblical foundation, look elsewhere. If I hadn't come from a previous solid Bible college I would have been swayed here. It seems that they allow anyone from any kind of denomination to speak at their chapels. This highly agitated me, I asked a certain staff member to disciple me here and she wouldn't meet with me unless i sought her out and after awhile ignored me all together. Furthermore, she never opened up a Bible in our meetings. I'm not sure she knew what discipleship was. I love Brian Shelton and his kind heart, love the campus, loved my church off campus, loved being apart of the worship team (Podge!), but disappointed by the lack of...

A really gorgeous waterfall right on the campus of a very nice college. There seemed to be plenty of friendly folks here. There was no parking fee at this site unlike those run by the state. I bet this is a popular spot during the day at this college. There is a 2 dollar admission fee that is well worth it and far less than the 5 dollars that you will get charged elsewhere. You go to the visitors center then through the gift shop and out the back to the waterfall which is about 100 yards from there or so they say. The college and waterfall are definitely out of the way but well worth the drive. My advice if you go there in the summer take some water with you. Real nice spot to...