Henry Ford Community College

Date: Aug 01 2008
Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time)
HFCC is tough for a community college. My brother graduated from there 5 years earlier, and he couldn't believe how much tougher the classes had become. HFCC is trying to obtain more funding, so the best way to achieve this is to create a stronger reputation—especially amongst four-year universities in the region—as being a reputable community college. Some of the buildings are becoming quite run down on the insides, and the restrooms in those buildings can become as bad as those at some gas stations at times. However, the allied health (nursing) and IT buildings are more modern and kept up a lot better. The differences between buildings are almost striking at times. Also, different ethnic groups are vying for control, so it can seem pretty clicky around the campus during the daytime. It's not as obvious in the evenings when there are more older students. Some foreign groups of students tend to have weaker backgrounds in English and stronger backgrounds in math than their fellow native students, and the placement tests do not seem to take care of these differences. This results in both native and foreign students feeling disadvantaged in certain classes.