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
Replying to
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).
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
Replying to
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.
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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
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My daughter recently graduated Harper and sad to say the new president is also a bloated burp rat. She is happy at her transfer school, in Chicago, but no thanks to the useless advice from her advisor, and the incompetent counseling faculty man she saw.
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
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.
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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Yes it’s a cold place for sure. Not what I was thinking.
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 ***
Me 2. Worked here in early 1990s.
Ignorant then, and from what I see, ignorant now. Especially HR.
What a clown car. Admissions .
I agree. My daughter was thinking of going here to knock off some gen ed classes before going to a pricier college.
When we visited Harper it felt off, sterile and cold. Bad vibes.
Employees seemed disconnected and students we spoke to were sad. My daughter couldn’t see herself here so we chose another path.
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.
Well, I am an Independent leaning left and I thought it sucked at HC.
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.
Me 2 dude!
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 =.
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.
Useless admins is the main prob, not just the lazy *** unions. I work here now and m looking to get the *** out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow I DNK that you could review a college here. I went to Harper and we moved away so I only went one semester.
It is ok, and teachers are better than average, but as a nonbinary biracial man I can say it is NOT inclusive. They try to make everything “diversity” and “inclusion” by talk about black and brown people that’s a big part of it but it is not the only part.
My stepdad and stepsister are black and my mom is Mexican I look white but I am not “non diverse”. Harper needs to get into the right century and stop trying to dumb diversity down.