Charter College : Anchorage
Charter College : Anchorage is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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As a past student, I can state that Charter has a real goal for students to be successful in the field of study they pursue. It rest’s on the students shoulders to pursue the challenges and overcome the educational situations that hold the other individuals that have commented negatively below from being successful.
Honestly, I failed to fully read each comment below as they were riddled with spelling errors, grammar issues, and untruthful comments that just aren’t true. If you have questions regarding the school reach out, ask questions! I’m extremely happy with the education I received and as it appears I might be the only one out of the comments to have actually graduated (based on grammar and spelling) I highly recommend it as an educational option for post-secondary schooling.
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Josh
Not all, but much of what is being said here is truthful. Currentstudent1 – very interesting point about the timeline regarding online classes, By mid November 2013 management definitely knew that several programs, including currentstudent1s networking security, were going completely online in January 2014. i think that’s when the announcement was made to staff and the redesign of classes and other stuff began. It’s possible that Reno knew about the switch to online earlier than November 2013. They did a ‘road trip’ in November 2013 and they announced it literally a day or two after the first stop. That spread like wildfires among the campuses. That kind of indicates that they were already planning this massive move of several programs to a total online format. Odd that they were telling you there was shortage of networking faculty at the Alaska campuses. I wasn’t tied in to Alaska, but the rumor mill was pretty significant and we almost always heard of layoffs, firings, etc, but I don’t remember any shortage of instructors at Alaska during the time you mention.
Penny makes an excellent point: online classes require no physical facilities to be mantained and are cheaper than on ground classes. Additionally you don’t have to provide actual equipment, classes can be larger and the same material can be used over and over again. All driving down costs. Their welding program is largely virtual. I believe a charter will move every program they can, including truck driving, to online in order to cut costs and keep them low.
7 makes a really good point about renting your text books (at the same cost I think when students actually bought them) and not being able to write in them. Who does that? Who studies a textbook and doesn’t highlight it or write notes in the margin. Never
understood that rule. Really, what’s the point of having a textbook if you can’t make notes in it?
Angie and Sarah, that happens way to often for various reasons, but is does happen a lot.
If you want to be in a classroom environment that gives you the skills needed to make it in the real world. Stop right here and don’t consider this “College”. And the people in the front office ar not to be trusted. They will tell you what ever you want to hear to get you to sign up for there extremlly exspensive school. They are on a commision based pay schedule. Most of them dont even have a college degree. So how could they possibly know what works for anyone. I know this because im a current student in my 8th week there. As i was looking into the program of my interest i was told many things that turned out to be straight up lies.
I had been attending a traditional college for the past few years on a part time basis in the lower 48 and was ready to jump in full time and get the degree done.
The main question i asked several was are these classes on campus or online. Since i was taking a Network Security i wanted a on campus school. I was assured that all the technical classes would be on campus with a teacher. I wasnt told that was if they had a teacher for that class. Point 1 they do not employ enough dedicated staff to fulfil there class scheduleing. 4 weeks into my experince their i was alerted that my first introduction class to the security side of my schooling would be online because they had no teacher for the classroom. I went to the administration and voiced my concerne and asked how many of the technical classes would really be online. I was assured in writing that only a couple more would be online possibly. So i decided to push forward aqnd hope they hired staff to teach me after all im paing the $40.000.00 for a degree. Point 2 Classes are rediculously over priced and keep in mind this is a for profit school. Kinda like a used car lot. I did know the cost of the classes before i signed but thought if i could finish my degree in 9 or 10 months with my transferring credits it would be worth it. Point 3 there credit are not the same as a traditional college and will not transfer. Halfway through my second set of classes i get a mass email to all in my upcomeing classes that do to not haveing a teacher they can not offer the next two classes for day students and would i preferr night or weekends. Well i dont have the luxury to switch my work schedule every five weeks to meet their schedule. Keep in mind i signed up for daytime classes do to this reason. I contacted the administation again and was told they have no one to teach day classes and this would possibly be a ongoing issue since the people in the IT field they need to teach their classes already have full time jobs and dont need a part time job teaching for what equate to about 12 dollars a hour before taxes. They Have lost 3 Of the 5 teachers that I’ve had in the past 8 weeks due to the way they run thing. They have all moved on to better jobs and gave their resignation’s. At this point i am tapping out and am going to UAA. . I figure Iwill have to stop working but after looking at the curriculum for UAA. The classes their will give me ten times the skills needed to perform at a job than Charter’s would. Iwill have to stop working but after looking at the curriculum for UAA. The classes their will give me 10 times the skills charters classes will give me.
Why not go to a local community college that is regionally (truly) accredited and far cheaper? If you can’t hack it at an accredited school, then maybe you aren’t meant to go to college. Nothing wrong with that. Save yourself 30,000 bucks.
Charter is in need of a total overhaul or they need to close up shop. In the end they are hurting future graduates and leaving them in a very bad place, some people are graduating not knowing anything about the program they just graduated from! I think charter has intentionally let people fall through the no child left behind cracks because there are students there who are overpaying for an awful education, and going to be screwed when it comes down to finding a job in the IT field! If anything charter needs to at least refund the students for the failures they are allowing to happen because of the accreditation and the low overall standard that is charter. Now i do agree that its up to a student to get the most out of a college but in this case theres an exception when the college does not present the student the opportunity to learn the most they can and build them up for success and the student has been studying and doing what he or she can and still doesnt know the material and charter allows them to graduate anyway there is something majorly wrong with that picture!
I would personally say if someone wants to experience overpaying for a horrible education with an ever changing staff thats turnover is equal to Mcdonalds staff turnover rate then hey go to charter, but not on my recommendation bc i would not recommend charter college to anyone!