My specific qualms: (1) Academics are sub-par.  Tests and quizzes are often open book!  Even so, these tests would be impossible without being open book, or at last open note.  As such, most classes discourage the students from studying instead leaving us to take a tedious examination.  (2) The teachers themselves range from satisfactory to excellent, but the support staff are rather incompetent.  The teachers would be more helpful if not for the fact that they do not have offices, making them almost impossible to meet in person outside of class.  (3) The process of transferring course credit from other colleges is complicated.  (4) Students PAY money to attend any college, therefore they are CUSTOMERS.  Customers come first!  But apparently not at NWBC.  At any real college (even community colleges and junior colleges), most courses are offered multiple times on multiple days of the week, providing students with flexible schedules.  At this college, some courses only have one class per term, others might have two or three, and some do not even meet in a term.  As a result, rather than students planning a schedule that suits them, in true Stalinist fashion, “We” (the institution) determine when students may and may not take classes.  But what if I live over a half an hour away from the nearest campus and would prefer to take all my classes on two days of the week.  Unfortunately that is not often possible because most classes are offered once per quarter.  (5) Case in point, I had to take an online course because an acceptable traditional class was unavailable.  Online courses should never be offered except as an alternative for those students who would prefer it.  Pressuring students to take an online course is unfair, particularly when that course is BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, one which really may not suitably be taught online.  (6) Many of the courses are bogus ones devised to rake extra tuition bucks.  In fact, an AAS is worth 100 credit hours (though this is probably the equivalent of 75 at most schools, which go by a semester system).  Some of the classes are electives to pad the curriculum, others seem to be redundant or duplicate classes.