Minor league. Most of the certificates and diplomas will get you a job barely above minimum wage -- not worth the wasted time and effort. And if you're going for an actual college degree, do yourself a favor and study at an actual college, not a technical college -- most SRTC faculty and staff are semi-literate, at best. It's no place to learn how to succeed at a real university.
Halfway through my first semester my favorite professor was fired. Not only was he/she fired but they brought in the police to escort him/her out during class with the students watching. No this was not a criminal charge. The proper way to have handled it without disrupting the student's education was to wait until the semester was over and then let them go based on the reasons for being fired.
Mind you this happened right at the beginning of our biggest essay assignment that covered 25% of our grade. Left us with a sub. Yeah they weren't thinking about the students in this situation as there was not a backup plan in place prior to their decision. Meanwhile we are the ones that pay for this service whether through our pockets, a loan, scholarships/grantswe pay for this kind of mess. This was an amazing professor btw, was professional, helped each person in the class with their assignments, and actually taught the class. Very poorly handled and very unprofessional SRTC. Will not allow my children to enroll for move on when ready at this school. This situation discouraged and disgusted me in how the professor and students were handled.
I have found SRTC to be a welcoming, encouraging, and fantastic educational experience. I am thoroughly enjoying my time at this school!
Great school and even better environment. The staff will go an extra mile to help you find what you need. I have enjoyed studying here.
I would not recommend the school to anyone.
In my experience with the school the instructors do not help students who need help, the advisers will not help you if they do not like you, namely Bryant and Kirkpatrick.
The doors will be locked on you because administrators don't feel they should have to hear students out even though their policies are supposed to be open door. The instructors degrade students telling them they are insignificant they're supposed to be transparent and have also been noted to tell students to get their panties out of a wad when asking for study guides or help with the study material. their policies are mainly broad and very vague, open to interpretation by the administrators and are enforced at their discretion So if they do not like students they will discharge them when they so choose.
Telling them they can appeal, but then giving the student no further help with this process.
Favorites are easy to distinguish.. In my experience the students with money, who had smug attitudes and acted superior to the others were treated better than the rest. Cliques were prevalent Instructors didn't do anything to help this though, even when allegations were made against other students, such as threats being made etc.
Instructors refused to investigate these allegations or to validate them. They simply escorted the student off the campus even though the allegations turned out to be false.
So in a sense.. Students who didn't like other students were allowed to prey on people because their social group was larger and they had more support
All in all this school values its "professionalism"
But it doesn't produce quality nurses, it produces cutthroat cookie cutter nurses who act like high school girls.
Not to mention there were between 300-600 dollars of unexpected fees each semester.
Policies such as their "drug card" policy which students were forced to sign and that stated students had to turn in extra credit prior to their pharm tests However, if u didn't turn it in, or if there was a single card missing, you weren't allowed to take your test, essentially taking 100 points from your grade.
This failed so many students our first semester.
I will say the one redeeming quality this school had in my opinion was the empathy and care the other instructors had.
Benton, McCutchens, coworker, all excellent instructors. All excellent in clinicals.
They truly cared about students if you put in time and got to know them.
If you went to these instructors they would show empathy even if they couldn't help you.
I live in moultrie its to far away.
It is the greatest experience to go back to school with caring teachers who wants you to expand your horizons.