Wesleyan College

Date: Oct 26 2011
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
While the curricula is adequately challenging, the classes are small enough for a very personal relationship with faculty, and the liberal arts education is valuable, there are more than enough downsides to this college to reconsider enrollment. While the faculty are generally knowledgeable and helpful within each department, the staff, mainly the ones that work closest with students are almost completely ineffective. The campus police are less protective than probing and suspicious, often missing real threats in order deal with petty campus intrigue. The staff in charge of student affairs are not only purposefully unavailable, they seem to specifically maintain a distance which renders them virtually useless. Emails concerning housing or student interaction issues have been known to be ignored for weeks on end, and are usually responded to only if multiple follow-up emails are sent. At campus this small, where all students are required to live on campus for the extent of their enrollment, it just does not make sense for the head of student affairs to repeatedly ignore serious interpersonal issues between students.

In essence, the education is wonderful, but the living situation is an utter disappointment. I do appreciate the liberal arts education that I have received over the past years, had I known that it would be so difficult to get an adequate response from the student affairs office, I would have seriously reconsidered my enrollment. No matter the issue - the theft of expensive property, the destruction of personal property, and the invasion of privacy, this school is completely ineffective in dealing with it.