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In all fairness , I must say there are some excellent teachers working for this university. Unfortunately, they don't work in the department of my focus and employment. There are absolutely brilliant, approachable, good-natured, and PROFESSIONAL teachers to be found in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, architecture, and math departments. Then there are departments which seem to have no real leadership, as well as some who seem to hire the worst teachers. One department in particular retains the majority of its long-term teachers as staff members and never considers them for fulltime faculty positions, preferring to hire young, inexperienced, and incompetent graduate students to fill faculty openings. In general, this university does not hire its own graduates for faculty positions. The last time that I looked through the list of faculty, less than one-half of one percent of the teachers earned their terminal degrees from UNCC. What does that tell you about UNCC's OWN opinion of its school? If one seeks a liberal arts education, he should think twice about it, not only because of the logistics of employment, but also because of the general failures on the part department chairs to provide a wide range of subjects and to hire teachers whose CVs indicate a wide range of educational, work, and life experiences. The College of Education,the Religious Studies department, the English Department and the Athletics Departments provide good examples of this failure. Unless there are sweeping changes in present administration and faculty at UNCC, my children will never set foot on this campus. Mr. Bowles would do well to spend some time speaking to both students and faculty IN HIS OFFICE to see the real picture and to hear opinions from students and faculty in an environment in which they may express themselves freely and honestly with no fear of reprisal. Jan 05 2009 Other

UNC Charlotte is growing academically and physically, it will be a top ranked university in the next 5 years! Nov 09 2008 School of Information

There is some exciting research going on at UNCC in the Computer Science department and it has been recognized by US NEWs rankings as being in the group of top-ten upcoming universities in the US.The department has many challenging projects and quite a good amount of external funding.It has to improve upon the coursed offered, but it is moving in the right direction.The strength of the departemnt lies in its faculty. Nov 04 2008 Computer Science

My thesis committee left the university and failed to sign off on it. I wasn't even given any indication that anyone was leaving. I don't think anyone read my thesis. When it came time to turn it in to the graduate school, I couldn't find anyone who would sign off on it. Apparently, the professors' forwarding addresses were erroneous because I never even got an answer from any of them. In the end, I got three graduate faculty to scribble their names onto the signature page. DO NOT ATTEND THIS UNIVERSITY FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL. THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY MAJOR SCREWUPS THAT I EXPERIENCED AT UNCC. Oct 29 2008 Unknown Walking in Circles

It seems that students who spend the most time at this university (i.e.,B.A. to M.A.) are the least happy about their experiences at UNCC. Students who come to UNCC from out of state and enroll in the English graduate program just can't understand it when in-state students feel like they're getting p*ssed on (e.g. not getting the kudos from the department, getting passed over for assistantships, among other things). You have no idea how demoralizing it is to in-state graduate students when an out-of-state student receives a sizable fellowship, teaches for one year, then gets married and pregnant and never teaches again. Anyone who spends even a smidgen of time being involved with the UNCC English graduate program sees the favoritism accorded to the thankless lackeys who spend little time in class, who turn in papers late (if at all, I wonder), and who spend most of their time brown nosing the faculty, but gripe and complain about how difficult life is when one must attend a school that is SO beneath them. These are the same people who get the recognition and the references to get college teaching jobs. One prof put it bluntly: "If you attended CMS, that's one strike against you. If you attended CMS and got your BA from UNCC, that's two strikes against you. If you attended CMS, got your BA from UNCC and enter the English graduate program, expect to be ignored.You are just background for the out-of staters." He was right, but he forgot something: Don't expect any meaningful letters of recommendation to get into a postgraduate program elsewhere. I cannot recommend UNCC's English program to anyone, despite the fact that it is host to a few really good professors. They cannot even begin to make spending six or more years of one's life at UNCC seem like a profitable use of time. To the faculty I say this: Shame on you. Shame on every d*mned one of you. Jul 10 2008 English

Let's see... where do I start? My high school was much better than this h3llhole. Too many of the graduate faculty have been there too long so they feel as though they're infallible and above reproach. Most are incredibly lazy and spend too much time encouraging the idiot kiss-ups so that it's unlikely that anyone will tell the truth on the faculty evaluation.Others just don't give a cr@p what anyone thinks of them. Assistantships are competitive in a very strange way. Totally incompetent grad students stay on to teach there. Favoritism? Unreal. Some grad students don't even go to class but they pass and retain their assistantships. I really regret having attended this school and having wasted my time there. I love literature and I hope some day to teach, but with this lousy MA degree from UNCC, I am having difficulty getting into a really good school to get and MFA (which is what I should have done) or a PhD. If you are like me and waited for so many years and worked so hard to go to college, go somewhere else. Attend another university. Get an online degree. Go to a community college. Maybe spend the rest of your life drinking cleaning products. Just don't waste your life at UNCC --- at least if you're an English major. I cannot recommend this school at all. ZERO points from top to bottom. Mar 22 2008 English

I started at UNC Charlotte as a second degree BA student. I really struggled my first semester, but I found people (faculty/staff) that actually cared about me and really wanted to see me succeed. I graduate last December and I am in grad school right now, partly because of those individuals. If you are a older student, get to know the people at OASES and NTSO. You will meet wonderful people there and will help you with whatever you need them to do for you. Jun 09 2005 Other

 

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