Howard University Top Questions

It's orgaization and administration. Financial aid isn't as abundant as it should be, administrators are rude and don't care about the students. There are always long lines for registration, financial aid, etc. The school is not as technologically advanced as it should be. There is not transparency when it comes to the monies that the school recieves/raises and the budget.

The ineffective, troublesome bureacracy. Every semester I, and most students I know, deal with late financial aid disbursement, unnecessary stress about housing assignments, and unresponsive uncaring student support workers throughout every department in the Administration bulding.

The Administration at Howard University is horrible. People here do not want to see change occur; because of that, many students on this campus lose their housing, get the run-around from administration and sometimes don't even get the alloted credits he or she has earned due to incopmetence. The cause of this is "inbreeding" of staff, in which former alumni from previous years come back, and they are set in their own ways. This can become very cumbersome and leads to confrontation between students and staff. Unfortunately, this has soon to be rectified.

the Aworse thing about my school via personal exprience would have to be academic advisement. It seems that there is no cohesiveness with professors, advisors, and chairpersons; and thus no system of checks and balances to course students to assure them that they are on the right track. It also seems that they are not trained to advise in any given situation.

THE ADMINISTRATION AND HOUSING IS THE WORST ENTITY OF MY UNIVERSITY. A LOT OF THE STAFF IS RUDE, UNINFORMED AND DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT OUR ISSUES. IT'S REALLY HARD TO GET ON-CAMPUS HOUSING. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH HOUSING TO PROVIDE A PLACE TO LIVE FOR HALF OUR CAMPUS.

I hate the way that they distribute scholarships. they base it on finicial need and not merit. i maintain a 3.83 and my parents pay for my sister and my brother's tution. i have to work part-time to helps minimize my students loans so that i can stay in college. too often do i know people who are on academic probation but have a full ride. i wish that the university would take into account that other finances that my parents have to deal with before they deny my request for a grant or scholarship.

The one thing that needs the most improvement ("worst" sounds so harsh!) is housing, namely just receiving it. More students are admitted than can be housed, and If a continuing student-- like myself this year--, does not get housing through our RSVP system, it is a nail-biting experience: from March until the week before classes start we are unsure if we can get a room, unless we give up and find apartments somewhere in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area, which are pretty expensive even with a roommate and not always safe.