I'm a current full time employee instructor at Brown Mackie Atlanta. All of the above mentioned comments on this forum and other numerous forums like Jobvent.com, still understate the current culture and environment at Brown Mackie. The admission department alone should be charged with fraud and literally lying to student to make commission sales and bonuses. All potential or new students are told that they transfer all of their units to actually universities and colleges. Unfortunately do to the humble backgrounds of the students (poor, homeless, single parents, illiterate, and mental disabilities), the student don't possess the know how to verify the information that they've been told. Admissions is completely predatory on unsuspecting student and bend over backwards to enroll any type of student.

On the education side of Brown-Mackie Atlanta, the leadership is completely lacking especially with the President Sydney, who behaves more a like a plantation owner than a true leader (I'll let you read in between the lines). Her knowledge about anything academic is truly lacking and she's would be lost without the help of the few legit department chairs. The culture at the school is very untrustworthy, where fellow faculty and especially the department looks to backstab and sully the reputations of the same co-worker they smile and converse with. Many of the department chairs are spies for the President and there's no real teamwork among those who should be pulling people together. Many of the department chairs are not qualified to lead a department let along teach at the school. Fortunately for the school, there exist many exception adjunct (part time) instructors who truly are skilled in the instruction of the students, but their hard work is undervalued and not appreciated. President Sydney promotes only those employees who brown nose and worship her humor and wardrobe. The career services department is a complete due to their lack of job placing newly graduated student, their main functions is standing in the hallway talking with students and appearing to work. The caliber of students has actually diminished and unfortunately these students who need actual teaching from adult learning facilities will never be given the help they need and will only collect more debt and be unable to be hired at a legit workplace.

The former dean quit in the middle of night and the school has been without a dean for 5 months. There's actually been new deans who were hired, but immediately rescinded their offer even the light of an instant raise. The lack of leadership, trust, competence, and morality is staggering. This is merely just a job to pay the bills for me while I look for a much better situation. This school should absolutely be invested for enrolling students who have no business attending a school and receiving federal financial aid. Here in the state of Georgia, a year bachelors from a real state university will run for about 24k for tuition over the 4 years. Brown Mackie's cost of education for their 2 year worthless and non-transferable associates degree is about 22k. These kids and adults are being swindled and hopefully something is done from reporting the dean for her incompetence to the shady department chairs (IT, paralegal, and surgical technology), and the cutthroat admissions. The pay does not justify the amount of work and the amount of headache one receives from working here. HR is also very cozy and in cahoots with campus President Sydney Brown Mackie Atlanta is a fraudulent institution and a breeding ground of amorality and an organization running the greedy scheme for the parent company EDMC.


All potential future student and employees beware

I am a current student and had been a student of "the good doctor". I wish to God, I would have investigated this school before signing away thousands of dollars! I consulted with the "good doctor" numerous times about the lack of quality education at BMC. I know for a fact that teachers are told to change grades to keep students. The Good Doctor is a good man and a good teacher and that is why we found out today at school he is gone. I have been lied to by the dean and my chairperson. I even called ACICS "the so called accrediting body" and they flat out lied when I questioned them! I fell betrayed and a fool.

I have attended BMC of fort Wayne for more than a year and a half. The first issue I had was in my third month of school. I was in psychology, and the instructor had no experience teaching adult students. As a matter of fact, the only thing that she had ever taught was elementary school. I decided to give her a chance anyway. (after all, BMC was taking care of my education.) In my second week of that class, I had not learned anything at all. At the time, I thought she was the worst teacher that anyone could ever ask for. My classmates and I all went to the dean, about not learning anything in that class and requesting some kind of assistance with it. We were all told that there was nothing that could be done and we needed to stop giving her "attitude" and do our school work.

A few months later I got a notice saying that I qualified for a state grant. I was ecstatic. I gave it a few weeks to post to my account, and then followed up with financial aid. $1150 of free money that I had earned disappeared! It was not applied to my loans and it was not applied to my excess funding check. When I spoke to financial aid about it, I was told that they had not received it and knew nothing about it.

Yet another few months later, I was scheduled to take an independent study class. I was excited about this because I had been teaching myself for quite sometime anyway. On my day of orientation for this class, I was told that all assignments would be in the folder for me in the library on Mondays. I checked the folder prior to leaving and there were no assignments. I came back on Tuesday and there were still no assignments.

I tried to contact the instructor who was in "charge" of the class and could not even get him to reply.

The following week, I don't know why, but I checked my grade for that class and I had gotten zeros on 4 assignments from the first week, that I had not even received. I attempted to speak with the dept chair, the dean, and anyone else that I could get a hold of and no one could seem to help.

This continued until week 3 of my class, and I finally managed to leave work early so that I could find my "instructor" in person. I finally spoke to him in person, and explained that I had left several messages and I was pretty irritated that he would not respond or make sure that I had my assignments. At that point, He told me that he never checks his email, or messages "because there are always so many."

In dismay, I got the assignments from him, and kind of gave up..

There was too little time left in the class to complete all of the assignments, so I did the bare minimum to pass.

After my final grade was posted I was surprised to see a B as my overall grade. I looked at the assignments that were graded and he gave me points for assignments that I did not even turn in.!

My point to this story, is that the education at brown mackie is not even sufficient enough to be considered below average. They do not challenge students in any way, and the majority of the instructors are only there for a paycheck.

After months of this, I finally began checking into other colleges in the area. I knew the most challenging part would be to find a school that would accept BMC's credits. I found a school, and decided to transfer.

now since I had just began a loan term (the first month of three months) I wanted to make sure that I would leave there with out owing any money.

I met with my financial aid advisor and explained that I was leaving, when and why. Then told her that I wanted to make sure that I would not owe any money to BMC because I was leaving after the first month in a term. She and another FA advisor, told me to leave $1500 in my student account and that is what would be refunded to my loan holder and I would not owe any money, thus would not have to worry about a hold being put on my transcripts.

Two weeks after I left, I went into BMC to fill out a request for my 18 months of transcripts to transfer to my new school. I was told that I had a balance due of over $2000, and there was a hold on them until the balance was paid. As livid as I was, I marched down to the financial aid office and asked my advisor what happened. She said "they messed up and sent back all of your loans." I said "what do you mean?" She explained that instead of refunding 2 months worth of loans to my loan holder, they sent back all three.

I tried to contact the business office about the matter and no one would return my phone calls. So I decided to fix it myself. I called my loan holder and explained the situation to them and they were more than willing to send back whatever money that was needed. The next step for me was to contact BMC and and let them know this information. I did just that, and spoke to the assistant director of financial aid. Now let me remind you that these classes are 4 weeks long and it is one class a month. When I spoke to her she said that I had to be in school 30 days before I could be eligible for any student loans. I explained to her that, if that were the case in there class structure, no one would ever qualify for any student loans. It doesn't matter rather it is 3 months or one month, in a 4 week long class you will never meet a 30 day attendance criteria.

She continued to argue with me and then hung up.

I since then have conducted much research on this school, finding out that I am merely one example of how corrupt this school is and how they have left an unimaginable amount of people empty handed and broke, rather it be through blatant fraud, or a lack of a quality education.

Please save your self the biggest mistake of your life, and pursue a degree somewhere else.