My College is doing some questionable things...is there anything I can do?

A little background: I am going to a private college in Minneapolis - I have been going for a while and haven't really recognized the things that are happening.

The program I am apart of is pretty new. and I have been enrolled in this program (video production)for a little over a year ( was at the school for two years prior to that in a different program but mostly took gen. ed classes) so I am set to graduated in 2012.

Here is what is going on: The school only has two rooms that can be used for video editing - and there is almost always class in those rooms which means that the rest of the students don't have access to computers with Final Cut Pro to work on our projects except for late at night or on weekends (but the campus closes at 6 on weekends and 11 on weekdays.)

There is also often a shortage of equipment - yet somehow they are expanding the program and added a ton of new students every quarter without the resources for the students to succeed - and to top that off they are in the process of starting up ANOTHER program for audio production - even with "no budget" to support it's current program.

Then I just found out that our programs credits have been reduced. They decided that they were going to cut a few classes from the curriculum - some of which I have already paid over $1,000 each to take. I am starting to feel absolutely robbed and I don't know what to do.

Is there any action I can take? it just seems like I am getting screwed over and treated as a stupid customer rather than a student. The instructors are all great, but whoever is "running the show" isn't.

**TL;DR My school is bringing on more students than it has the resources to accommodate, and is cutting courses from the curriculum that I already had to pay and take. **

Edited for clarity.

Posted Nov 3, 2010, 6:41 PM UTC · edited

86117
Loading comments…