Mary Baldwin College

Date: Nov 03 2009
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
Regarding surrounding community: Please note that I am not on the main campus, but at a regional campus. I am an adult student and this is my first semester at MBC, transferring from NY. My personal major (history) is thrilling, my professor is excellent. Other experiences so far are horrendous. Adult students are clearly step children of the college despite claims to the contrary. Adult dept staff are condescending and unhelpful. My other professor (English) is by far the worst professor I have ever encountered, incoherent and fanatically "Christian". If one does not speak from an appropriate "Christian" viewpoint (English from a Christian POV, what on earth does that even mean?) she deems you a "devil's child". For some reason this is OK with the adult program at MBC. It is however, not OK with me. This lunatic, who should be retired, is jeopardizing my GPA with her nonsensical, incoherent and offensive comments (she has to assume all adult students don't know anything and is angry that I do know things)and platform because I am not adequately "Christian" in her opinion. I do not recommend this college for adults, and were I a parent, my child would be out of there so fast unless the school took immediate steps to addressing the issues with some of their tenure professors—which clearly extend beyond unacceptable behavior to legal issues. It does not surprise me that the dowry at MBC is very small. Who would support this school? It is an embarrassment to the field of education, contributing more to the unfortunate stereotyping of the south rather than contributing to a student's education. It is laughable.