Oakland Community College - Highland Lakes Campus

"The teachers here are unhinged. Half of them don't do anything all semester. What's my grade? Who knows because my teacher hasn't updated anything since week 3. Grading? Off the wall and inconsistent. Can I at least voice my concerns through course evaluations? Nope."

"OCC has gone downhill so much in the past few years. My experience here started out okay, and as the semesters came and went, it just has always been something. No one wants to help you unless you have money. The “support” staff is anything but supportive. I will repeatedly get transferred from person to person because no one can figure things out themselves, or they literally know nothing. Payment plans are a joke and so unaccommodating. Their online classes are still just professor’s recordings from covid, they don’t upload anything new… don’t even teach! There’s so many glitches in the online system as well, it’s frustrating to deal with. They advertise they have tutoring and SI’s, but limit your tutoring and the available hours aren’t really workable for people who work 9-5pm. Their SI’s aren’t helpful, unprepared, and literally “wing” their study sessions. Whole math department needs to be rebuilt from the ground up… So many RUDE professors who clearly shouldn’t be teaching nor know how to talk to people, especially women. They have been dumping money into their campuses but clearly not into their staff. The cost just isn’t worth the experience and lack of care everyone has now. They don’t treat you like a human being."

"Went here in 2017 the faculty staff was very rude and not helpful. I drop all classes due to my health issues. A few years later this college sued me for a 900$ balance! Thank God I was able to do a payment arrangement through the attorney!"

"If you have loved ones in the special needs department DO NOT SEND THEM HERE. The special needs department is called "Acess". Their is a blonde lady who works there and makes nasty comments to special needs student making them cry by insulting them, messing with them, and before twisting their words laughing at them. She innapropriatly overshares her personal life problems for the entire room to echo with it. She is not responsible to be in this department. It really makes you wonder how they view special students behind closed doors. They're people like anyone else and deserve to be treated with patience, kindness, and respect."

"My experience is only with this campus specifically. I've been trying to sign up for classes at OCC for almost 2 years now. The first year I had some personal issues which is not their fault. However since then I've been trying and every time i call the counseling department the staff is extremely rude. Once a lady asked me several times over the phone if i was a new student. I said yes and told her i had already taken the steps leading up to this and my next step was to meet with a councilor. she completely dismissed what i had said and told me to apply. I again told her I had already done so. She then proceeded to tell me that i would have to utilize walk in appointments because they were completely booked up. Which is okay but she made me feel stupid for even trying to make an appointment. its hard to convey how rude she sounded over the phone. it was super unprofessional. I've also been hung up on before by the counseling office. Other than the counseling office, placement testing and applying was easy and the facilities are very clean."