Paine College

Ok, when I first came to Paine College, it was by chance. In high school I never really took the time to research many colleges and I applied to some, and Paine was the one that accepted me. So I felt honored and came to Paine College. When I came, I thought we were in the middle of a ghetto neighborhood. My first dorm (Epworth Hall) was terrible, they give you tiny closet, and not enough storage space. Graham hall was a bit better (as far as storage), but had the nastiest kitchen and microwave ever, Sankofa Hall was alright ( with the fact that I had my own room ofcourse) but it was basically a trailer with paper thin walls and even had a flood with some people's things ruined ( the school did not pay them back either), Berry Gomillion Hall is nice, you have your own private bathroom, and enough space for you and your roommate. I also stayed in the Paine Villas ( apartments and townhouses) that were very nice. I stayed in a townhouse with two other roommates and we shared a kitchen bathroom, and a living room. The only thing I don't like about the town houses are you never really have your own room. In the apartment you have to share a room, and in the townhouse two people have to share a room while one person has their own room. I don't think that's fair, it could cause tension between the roommates. Let's get to the staff, they are unprofessional,( not all, just some), the housing staff is rude and unfriendly, Ms. Day is pretty much nice and remembers the names of students but Mr. Hall is large, immature college student pretending to do his job. Registration is a joke, in the past it was slightly ok, but this year was crazy. Usually when school is about to begin, they have students come a little early, get registered, and come to class. This time, they had all students come on one day, and then have class the next day and still get registered. Obviously, you can imagine that with so many students coming on one day to move in, registration was going to packed. It took me two days to get registered, and I heard one girl came at 9 a.m. and didn't leave until 10 p.m.! I'm an education major and so far I like my classes. Some classes that they have us take aren't relevant to our degree, such as macroeconomics. They have fired many of the staff ( which I hated) and keep only those with a doctorates. Some of the staff with Doctorates are good such as Dr. Graves. She is very friendly, has good ideas, and is there for the students. On the other hand, Dr. Dennis is the worst. She is very arrogant and only helps students which she likes. She teaches way too many classes and is a complete air head. She is never in her office, never answers her e-mails, isn't here for the students,isn't here for the love of education, and definitely needs to be fired. I have learned that a doctorate degree doesn't mean anything when you can't even teach a simple class.Hopefully, if you come to this school ( please don't though) Dr. Dennis is next to be fired and you won't have to deal with this nonsense. The food is horrible on some days for lunch or dinner you can be saved by a sandwich, breakfast used to be the best but now its pretty much disgusting. Not too much for campus activities....pretty much boring, most students go home on weekends...wish I was one of them. If you do decide to come to this school, please try to get a car ( if you don't have one) and move off campus. That way you won't have to deal with extra stress.

4th Year Female -- Class 2013

Useful Schoolwork: C+, Faculty Accessibility: F

Paine College is an abomination to HBCUs everywhere. Its founders are probably turning in their graves. The dorms are bio-hazards, the food is slop, and the campus looks like a slum. Local criminals roam freely on campus while campus safety fails to do its job. People get gang beaten, use narcotics, and drink openly on campus. The students are also irascible. The people who work in the financial aid & business office and student activities do not care about students, just their money. President George C. Bradley, his wife, and other authorities abuse their authority and feed off students like vultures devouring a corpse. The only silver lining is SOME of the instructors, but many of them are getting fired or retiring. I utterly loathe this college. I feel like I'm paying to re-attend high school. One of my instructors even told me that I was too good for Paine! If you are serious about an education PLEASE do not come to Paine. Unfortunately I'm stuck here because they won't transfer my credits. Once again, DO NOT COME TO PAINE COLLEGE! It's just paid drama. If you're already there, get out while you can. You may lose credits, but it will be worth it.

1st Year Female -- Class 2014

Faculty Accessibility: A-, Education Quality: F

Paine College is a bad school to go to. Reasons being the tuition is too high for what you get,Your not safe on campus,the staff is only there for the money. Paine trys to cover theirselves with all its flaws. During my first year there it was made an occasion for the augusta locals to come on campus and fight our students and shoot through people windows. Security don't do their job they always be ten minutes late after everything happen. Paine allow students who don't care about their education to stay in school while their the ones fighting and making the school look bad. They kick students out who can't pay their balance but pick and choose on students who got a balance exceedingly over the amount. The president Dr.Bradely never gets involed in paine because he's all ways On vacation. Looking at the staff luxuary questions where our money goes because all of the staff have the finer things in life while the campus look like a section 8 projects. There hardly any activities on campus. If you ever thought about considering paine and you seel weed and like to drink it's fr you because thats all the students spend their days doing. They are so unorganized.They pay people just to come to work the dorms sucks they are infested with spiders,roaches,waterbugs,and rats. The dorms also have holes int the ceiling i complained about that several times and nothing was done I had to tape up my ceilings, they also have mold and tiles coming up from the floor. The food is crap and lacks variety. Coming from a different state makes paine seem retarded. I say this because the work at paine was the same stuff I did in middle school and my first year of high school. I could keep on going about paine but I dread to say see it for yourself

1st Year Female -- Class 2014

Campus Aesthetics: C, Education Quality: F