Harper College

Agree! Very unhelpful.

I just started here. It sux already. I paid so stuck for fall but gonna book in spring.

They rate colleges here? Cool!

Yes this place sucks.

I went for a semester and got the *** out fast. Engineering my ***

I am a former employee. I live nearby and wanted a PT job so I worked here, briefly, I left asap cause it is a place filled with ignorance.

Do not come to work here if you are a minority. Period. And especially if you are a person who does not “look” like a minority, whatever the *** that means.

I felt like I was in the 1950s when I worked here, so much praise they give themselves for their “sensitivity” but wow I was knocked out by how stupid the admins and many staff and faculty are. It s a ***

I was there for a semester. That’s more than enough for me.

It’s filled with insincere people who don’t give a damn. I am older than most students so maybe it’s designed for inexperienced youngsters. But, so much nonsense and ignorance about diversity and fake DEI garbage.

Let me add I am “a poc” and trans so not a Maggot type. Glad to be out of there.

I went there last year hated it.

Me too. It has really really really gone downhill.

Pretty buildings, and since I am neighbors with one of the secretaries I know there are now lots and lots of new, useless, expensive admins, but wow, no support for students the way they used to have (I went here in the early 200’s, stepped out to have my kids, and went back last year).

They really used to have something special here, no more. My teachers are okay, but not as good as what they had then too.

I used to work at HC as an adjunct (and I am a POC). A very hostile work environ if you are a POC or any minority.

They are VERY ignorant in spite of all the self praise they do about acceptance. They are also very ignorant about students.

But they are very good at praising themselves. I teach at a nearby CC that is decades ahead of HC in terms of instruction, inclusion, etc.

My son liked Harper and did well here. Just as you say tho disability care here was really bad.

My daughter tried Harper out. She has a learning disability She saw the worst person EVER in disability services maybe 4 years ago? I think her name was Pascualah? She knew very little and was arrogant, terrible listener too.

My husband is a neurologist and I am an LD educator so we were displeasured to say the least about the lack of knowledge at Harper. She wound up enrolled at a different college that was so much better.

I saw this lady counslor, kind of older blonde lady last fall at Harper cuz I had some personal stuff to figure out. She was so unhelppful and didnot know what she was doing It made me feel so much worse. I am now trying to get to go to COD I heard its better and they have better people there.

Right you are! ICCB is a good way to go.

I know Harper. I worked as a receptionist at Harper for a Dean a few years back - and let me tell you Harper was a terrible workplace, worst in my career -mainly cuz the secretaries were meanspirited gossips always yapping about their hate for the teachers - *** and weird place.

HR at Harper is a joke, they don’t care about or like employees - esp the awful benefits manager lady - and I could not wait to get away. I work for a Fortune 500 now and it is night and day, love love my job!

We would like to complain. Who to?

We live in Arlington His and thought Harper would be a good local place for our kids. It's true that many teachers are very good but else the place is a *** show.

A lot of wasted tax dollars on admins, staff, fake DEI (my light skinned, gay, biracial son attended and let me tell you it is NOT a good place to be - assumptions that "white" = bad and of course not everyone who looks "white" is "white" but this is a place where assumptions and stereotypes abound.. We did a lot of checking in to why my son wanted to transfer after his first semester and once we visited a few times my wife and I supported his transfer to UIC completely once we saw how fake a place it is.

Hi there! Complain to the ICCB - Illinois Community College Board.

They oversee community colleges in Illinois. You can find a link on the web (I used to work at Oakton :)

It’s worth making the complaint. Do it - we are tax payers, and we deserve better. the sad part of HC and Oakton etc is that the teachers are mostly great but everyone else needs to go - too much overage of bloated admins and DEI nonsense (and hey, I am a liberal - identity politics have done nothing but make higher ed stupid like the rest of our poor country).

Harper College. Honesty....It's a ship of fools.

It is actually more like a cesspool. I was a student many years ago (early 2000's) and it was fantastic.

Could not have had a better experience.

More recently, I almost took a job there but turned it down. The place if filled with phonies and hypocrites.

I still go here and am kind of aware of some of the stuff being posted. Clubs really suck, and yes a lot of ignorance, but I like my program and teachers are fine. I am going to graduate next year!

My kid is in this program. It is true that this College is for white Christian kids.

It is not a place friendly to diversity excepting for the teachers who save the place and make it worthwhile for my son. Someone needs to teach whoever runs this place that diversity can be invisible. It can be religious. It can be ethnic.

Etc. etc.

Don’t impose paternalism on my son. Even he knows better= and lol he is just a kid.

Did not expect to see my old school reviewed here - went on to see about buying a new fridge lol but hey thank you for speaking up. For me, I went just a little while ago and found Harper to be diverse with students and man do they praise themselves for everything but they are also ignoramuses of diversity.

There is lots of backward thinking and so much ignorance. Everything is about “black and brown” versus “white”. Everything is christian. Silly way to think and outmoded and unhelpful for us students does not teach us anything.

I transferred out of there and went to a place where they get that diversity is about human beings and as a trans biracial person who looks “white” but is not thank goodness i am finally at a more welcoming place. Grow the *** up, Harper.

I too have a bad taste in my mouth from Harper College. Sam a former employee.

They treat employees like *** The administration is Ttoxic. I was very glad to get away from Harper.

I pay taxes lik eyou and see how they waist tax dollars like from honest people like us. I am a pissed consumer and a pissed former employee (I left their by the way and was not fried)

I went to Harper in the 1980’s. I loved it.

My son graduated a few years ago and yes it has gone downhill. The President has really dumbed down the College. It’s a shame that we’re in a downward trend in higher ed. Administrators seem to confuse colleges with corporations.

The whole “AOI” thing is beyond stupid.

My son’s advisor was useless (and, I am sure, way overpaid) and gave him misinformation about business majors. Harper needs to hire some competent presidents - Ender and Breuer did not know what they were doing.

Could not agree more about how the AOI is a way to dumb students down. Hey, we're not that dumb! Give us a Fxxx chance!

I agree this college used to be a whole lot better than it is now. Illinois higher ed has really gone downhill. My daughter is going to go to Iowa State when she graduates just because of how far we’ve fallen in Illinois.

Burp rat oil!!!

Burp away!! Sometimes you feel better afterwards.

Also had a very bad experience here with Financial Aid and the Bookstore. This is not a good school to go to if you are a Veteran. They don’t get how to work with us.

Harper has fallen apart. The Board of Trustees are so out of touch with reality (and, with students), that they gave Ken Ender $45,000 as a bonus before his retirement.

Ender was incompetent leadership at its best. It is shocking that these things are happening in Higher Education.

I am appalled. I believe the quality of education is good, but will not send my children to Harper.