Harper College
Harper College Overview
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Harper College has 1.1 star rating based on 7 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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Pros: Teachers, Close to home, It is nice location free parking and i can afford.
Cons: Sterile and corporate, Athletics, Cold feeling unsupportibe to students.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Maybe try somewhre else", "If you are a taxpayer in district, complain because Harper went downhill".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Harper College has 1.1 star rating based on 7 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Teachers, Close to home, It is nice location free parking and i can afford.
Cons: Sterile and corporate, Athletics, Cold feeling unsupportibe to students.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Maybe try somewhre else", "If you are a taxpayer in district, complain because Harper went downhill".
Most users want Harper College to offer a solution to their issues.
Consumers are not pleased with Customer service and Exchange, Refund and Cancellation Policy. The price level of this organization is high according to consumer reviews.
Palatine, Illinois
Agree with you its gone downhill
I went here when I was youngout of HS and then more recent as an adult. English is secondlanguage.
I felt good here when I was teen but not as adult cuz I have more life under myself. It is not supported the way it used to be and it is cold and more like my job in a store than going to a school.
I got what I came for that is it. It is what I could afford.
- It is nice location free parking and i can afford
- Cold feeling unsupportibe to students
Preferred solution: For it to be better like it was maybe could send my kids here
User's recommendation: Maybe try somewhre else
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Palatine, Illinois
Transfer out of this place
I went to Harper in the 90's and loved it. So much support and I was treated with respect and kindness.
My college aged child has disabilities and since we live in district I encouraged him to consider Harper for next year, so we did some digging and wow - what the heck happened to this place? It really went downhill. The disability services are awful - unprofessional, not at all up to date (or even comparable with our local high school). They have people called counselors who do not know how to counsel or seem to know or care about what they are doing.
It is cold and unwelcoming. We are paying more to send our kid out of district.
User's recommendation: If you are a taxpayer in district, complain because Harper went downhill
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.
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Palatine, Illinois
INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION
The "Promise Program" is bogus. It's really for able-bodied white christian kids.
What a load of discriminatory crap. Ken Ender was by far the worst president this college has ever had - he is great for taking photo opps but that is the extent of his ability.
I am a taxpaying citizen in Schaumburg. I thought I would send my kids here but no way - I want my money back.
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
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.
Palatine, Illinois
Used to be great now less than mediocre
Harper was a wonderful place when I went there in the 90's. My daughter went there for a semester last year and wow has this place changed and yes for the worse.
It used to be warm and friendly. Now it is corporate and cold. Stupid marketing all over the place. Food costs more than my alma mater in California.
What gives, Harper?
Whoever is running this place forgot that community colleges are intended for the community - not some corporate waste of taxpayer dollars. My daughter is now at Elgin community college and so much happier.
Also thank you for this website - it is nice to have a place to share experiences.
- Sterile and corporate
Palatine, Illinois
Promise program is a hoax
You can't get in to the Promise Program is you are undocumented. It doesn't matter if you are DACA with a 4.0. That is BS.
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
I used to go to Harper. I live and work in district now and have a 14 year old who will be in college in a few years from now.
I agree with what you wrote. I follow stuff at Harper because my kid might go there one day plus my neighbor works PT there. So I know there is a lot of lip service about diversity at Harper. It is BS.
The Old President Ender is your typical bloated burp rat. He used to talk a good game but was another politician type.
He was not credible. There is a new president lets hope she is better could not be worse.
Palatine, Illinois
Harper College fell apart
This has become a joke of a college. Disability service, athletics, the registrar and many at Harper is a total mess.
No one cares but maybe the teachers. I want my $$$$ back!
- Teachers
- Athletics
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
It's become a really *** workplace, too. HR looks the other way and is not interested in employees.
Administration is out of touch.
No one here is happy. I left a few months ago and work at another college where it is much better.
Palatine, Illinois
Duping people
My mom and dad wanted me to go to harper on promise. Thank gd I got into another college and will go there instead.
Promise is a good idea but the guy at harper who runs it is clueless. Harper not impressed at all.
- Teachers
- Close to home
- Poorly run
- Sterile and corporate
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
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I went there last year hated it.
Wow so many of you had my experience at this sucky place. What can I say it sucked the big one!
I went here awhile ago it was the *** worst. My car got scratched up in the parking lot!@
For what I paid to this college I felt it was not a good value at all. My son has mental health issues and the counselor he saw in spring 2024 was beyond terrible.
Imagine a counslor who does not offer counseling and that is what they do at Harper. Disability services was a mess, too.
Why do.we pay taxes to this place>>?? He is transfering to a better college =.
My son and I agreed he should go somewhere other than Harper. After spending one semester there, he experienced a lot of anti-semitism.
Lots of nonsense about diversity but no real commitment. He is now at a more expensive but far better College.
I worked here a long time ago in the 70’s. It was my first job.
It was great. We sent our son here to get his Gen Ed classes completed a couple years ago.
He loved the teachers but said the campus was a cold place. He left early to go to NIU and said it was so much better.
I worked here 2, in 1980’s. From everything I know now as my brother works there, it has become a toxic workplace, but yes it was a nice workplace once upon a time.
I wonder if I knew you? I worked there in the late 70’s too.
My husband worked there in 2011.
I am sad thinking of how great a workplace it was and what a *** it became. I would not let my grandkids go there.
You are an articulate young man. I worked at HC part-time not that long ago….and agree with your observations.
I thought it was a place with great promise that functioned as a toxic cesspool. The adjunct union is useless, too.
Useless admins is the main prob, not just the lazy *** unions. I work here now and m looking to get the *** out.