Howard University Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is the realtionship between the students and the faculty. When it comes to financial aid, forms get lost all the time and you may not realize it until they send you a letter with a purge date stamped on it. On this campus it is not uncommon to hear horror stories of the Administration Building. This building house the financial aid office and academic recording. Transcripts are misplaced, charges are inaccurate, and the staff is rude. It is unfortunate that this happens to students as it would be better to be courteous.

The worst thing about my school is the poor facilities and the administration. The faclities are old and outdated. The administrators can be rude and misplace papers frequently.

Somewhat poor administration.

Administration aren't as helpful as they should be.

The administration building because at times they seem very unorganized.

In all honesty, the worst thing about Howard University is the administration. Students are unable to receive the help they deserve without getting the run-around, encountering unncecessary negative attitudes, or being made to feel at fault for not knowing certain things. The administration's job is to provide students with the help they need to ensure a smooth matriculation through the university. The matriculation is all but smooth. The administration makes things so much more difficult than they have to be and we, the students, have to suffer. Customer service is not a priority here.

The worst thing at my school, i would have to say is the weather. We are located in Washington, DC; which is the eastern coast, and it's very cold. Being born and raised in the Northern coast of California, we do not experience cold winters or hot summers.

The worst part of Howard University is the adminitration and the way finanical aid and student acccounts is handled. The adminitration, finanical aid, and student accounts are the worse at Howard because many documents get lost, and nomorous students have problems and issues within the financial and student accounts departments.

The worst thing about Howard University is the administration and financial aid offices. Dealing with the workers in these offices can be very difficult. Majority of the students take issue with them. They tend to be rude to students, unorganized, and unhelpful. However, the new president of the school has been asking for feedback from students and is working with the administration and financial aid offices to better serve us. I think that a training course that teaches hospitality skills is greatly needed for the employees.

The worst thing about Howard are the facilities. I believe that as one of the top Historically Black Colleges and Universities, there should be better auditoriums, labs, and equipment for students and faculty.

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.