Elmhurst College

Date: Mar 19 2009
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
When I first came to Elmhurst last year I had high hopes for the college, and it didn't disappoint. The people both faculty and students were friendly and I was able to transition right in. The college had its problems like any institution; horribly over-priced cafeteria food, a lackluster gym that is almost never open to non student athletes. Other than that though I had no complaints, the faculty was solid and helpful with any class. This year has been a completely different experience though, the school changed presidents and other administrative positions in the very recent years and has lost sight of what it is supposed to be. Elmhurst like any other college is supposed to be an institution that provides for its students and gives them the best and most memorable college experience they can have while education them along the way. The problem is the school lost the identity that it stresses to everyone that will listen. "What college ought to be" is the slogan that you can't walk five feet without seeing somewhere on the campus. It may have been that in the past but I doubt college is supposed to be a place where students have no voice and is instead run by an administration that worries more about numbers than quality in education and living environment anymore. So much for being a SMALL liberal art school. At this rate freshmen will be the only ones allowed to lives in dorms because once you have a year on campus you need to "learn responsibility" and live on your own. I would rather someone was honest and just said look we don't have the space and honestly current students are no longer a priority to us. And any contact with res life is impossible because they don't even answer their phones, they have year-round straight to voice mail.

As far as I'm concerned this college need to fix things quick before the student body that gives them all jobs loses complete faith and the school falls by the wayside. Try accepting students opinions for once. We may be younger than you but obviously your experience isn't helping so try a different alternative…listen to the lifeblood of the campus. Turn Elmhurst back to the college it was when it first got the reputation for being what college ought to be. Otherwise I'm sure other schools would be more than willing to house the current students that you turn away.