Diablo Valley College

Some instructors are really good and some are really bad and do not qualify to be doing what they are doing. Some of the classes are taught by woke instructors who want you to comply with woke ideology. They force faculty and staff to mention and display their pronouns. Some of the instructors are truly unprofessional and should be fired. If you must attend this place, stay proactive, only take the classes that you need to take to transfer out, and do that as fast as you can. DO NOT take any of their online classes. It is often the case that the classes that you need will be instantly full and the only thing left will be classes that you do not need, especially low quality, horrible online classes. The classes that are needed fill up fast with international students and concurrent high school students. Nothing will be easy here and it will hurt you to draw out your time here. I do not recommend this community college if you can attend somewhere else. There are a few good instructors here and there.

5 stars bc I loved being there. It's really great especially for newly graduated high school alumni. Being in college as a very young legal adult is very important. There is, however, a few things I need to address. Tuition waived for born citizens plus financial aid on top of that is great but considering how much the cost of living is it's really not realistic the way it's set up. Basically as alumni I feel I have the duty to publicly make aware any kind of glitches par se. The certifications available for the various majors & the curated general education available depending on assessment is great if you can afford it. Meaning (as cliche as this sounds) in addition to the waived tuition, I had to figure out how to make my financial aid enough for my rent for housing, plus utilities, plus food & clothes & hygiene & transportation, etc. Obviously the response to that is get a part time job if you're a full time student (which is possible). What I'm saying is if you're a young adult undergrad going to school full time the only job you can get is a part time minimum wage job & unfortunately for me minimum wage at that time was only $7.00/hr. I was however able to get a part time minimum wage job for $7.50/hr plus free food (bc it was a restaurant) but there were no benefits & that's still not enough for the cost of living. Basically you have to be super privileged to even step foot on a college campus. Every little bit helps. Meaning you need a source of transportation, money for food, housing, etc all that. If you dnt have any one of those things, u will not b able to graduate bc the obstacles accumulates. I just feel that the way it's set up is not only do u have to b super privileged but it's also assuming that if something weird happens not only will u b able to report it but they per se will do something per se about it which they dnt. Like they say u just have to b smart. & I think it helps just hearing from other ppl networking trying to make the world a better place for future generations. What I'm saying is these r the things that needs addressing. Maintain the greatness but also make improvements by fixing whatever obstacles placed that way we can see a higher graduation rate & hopefully fix the school's credibility (which they ddnt have at least even I went). & also some of the teachers gives bad grades to students they're jealous of but there's a teacher review website for that so hopefully that is utilized. Anyway everything seems so corrupted but it's our duty to maintain the momentum of progression for future generations so it's really important that stuff like that per se gets addressed appropriately per se.