Poor advisement for MCC students
Marissa Villarreal
Mesa Community College Advisement, a place for students to sort out their classes and make plans for their future or perhaps a place to waste their time?
MCC has recently made tons of changes, moving the advisement center to another part of campus where they hoped to make advising students easier and more accessible, but I have found that these changes have only made things more difficult.
The simple task to even talk to an adviser has become the most challenging of them all.
After waiting in an uncomfortable line to talk to someone, you only get to the front to find that it will be another hour or two-hour wait in order to see an actual adviser.
Your name is then added to a waiting list displayed on a screen out in the waiting area, if you miss your appointment, you’re out of luck because they have stopped the very helpful old text message reminders; a text message informing you that you were next in line.
This is disappointing to me because I have
Or there have been plenty of times where one advisor tells me I need to sign up for all these classes, only to have the next adviser say I don’t need any of those classes at all but instead I must take this whole new list of other classes, when only half of them are actually being offered the following semester.
I’m not saying all this to bash MCC’s advisement center but I am trying to point out that it could be better.
It could be helpful and it could be useful.
If they managed to get their stuff together, maybe coordinate and actually work in a more organized fashion then students would be able to take the proper classes they need to graduate on time.
Why is it that I am taking yet another wrong math class when I was told to take this one by an advisor in order to earn my degree, when I could have taken the right one in the first place?
The thing is, I am not the only student who has had to deal with this mess. Not only have I seen other students struggle with having to re-take classes but I’ve found plenty of students who have wasted money on classes they did not need so I know it’s not just me.
I understand it isn’t an easy job, but I would think they would have their students in mind when trying to establish a reasonable system.
But until then I guess I’ll just be waiting in the two-hour line with the rest of MCC’s student body.
