Iona College

Date: Mar 19 2016
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
I recently turned on the St. Patrick's Day parade, and Iona College had so many advertisements throughout the parade. I am sure it cost Iona a lot of money for those advertisements. Iona showed a student or a few students discussing how successful he/she/they are/were due to attending Iona College.

What about all the students Iona doesn't support or help?

The Advertisements show one or two current students, that obtained internships and a successful graduate or two that were offered good jobs after graduation.

How about all the students, that Iona didn't support because Iona's Career Development Department is so under-staffed. Iona doesn't support Career Development.
As a student, I attended Iona's Interrship Job Fairs, and their full-time job fairs, and there were very few, if any Fortune 500/Fortune 50 companies in attendance pr represented.

I let a Corporate Recruiter look at my resume, that was approved by Iona's Career Department, and he told me it was limited, and he told me not to submit it for employment opportunities because it was outdated and it wasn't professional to market myself into the corporate world.

So while watching Iona's expensive ads, I wondered how many other students, are now paying back big loans to Iona, but didn't get the academic support services they were promised.

Iona, pretty much leaves you on your own, and I know, in college, you should learn to be independent, but when you are paying close to $50,000 annually, to attend a college, and you work hard to get a very high GPA, you expect the college to at least have Fortune 500 companies in attendance -to at least give you a chance at an Internship - and open some doors for you.

For me, personally, Iona was a wrong choice for me. Iona doesn't have strong partnerships with companies.

For Iona to Move the World, like their slogan denotes, Iona needs to move internally first. Iona needs to bring their Career Center, Academic Support Center, and other student departments into the 21st Century, but I don't think that will happen, when the only Department in the 21st Century, is Athletics.

Iona can build all the buildings they want, and buy up real estate, that I read about in The Journal News, but if they don't grow, Job Fairs, and partnerships, Iona won't move anything.

A few students, that we see on Iona's ads, the same students over and over, same successful grads, over and over, might move the world in their new jobs, but what about the large percentage of students, that are stuck with big loans, and after graduation, receive the letter, from Iona College to donate to the Alumni Fund?? After you graduate, unless you donate a substantial amount, Iona

forgets about you. Iona is constantly sending you letters asking graduates for money, even when they know, you have big loans to pay back.

I met nice people and friends at Iona, but Iona needs to change their entire Management structure, and work as an all-emcompassing team, before they can Move the Outside World. Iona needs to first fix what is broken on the inside, and assess their shortfalls, and move the inside of Iona's campus. You just don't experience a full-campus life at Iona. It's like high-school all over.

I know I won't be donating to Iona's Alumni fund or any other of Iona's funds, and many of my friends, that graduated, feel the same way. We have to pay off our loans to Iona first, and I didn't receive adequate support services, at Iona. I did have good teachers, but good teachers teach at all colleges.

My advice to high school students, is read the posters on this board, many mentioned to do due diligence and homework, and I agree. Ask a lot of questions, and ask to see the budgets, by departments - so you can see first-hand where the money goes. Also, ask to see a list of the companies that attend the job fairs, internship fairs, and ask for a breakdown of how many students received jobs and at what companies, and ask what the average annual salary was they were offered upon graduation. Also ask for the breakdown of students hired by department and majors, and what organizations hired them. Do homework, before you spend money going to a college, that doesn't have strong and growing corporate partnerships with corporations across industry lines.