Some years ago (Summer into Fall 200&) I learned that a woman named Dorothy XXXX in the Financial Aid Dept was misappropriating federal funding. What she was doing was taking awarded aid allotted for the preceding terms and applying it to the current term so no actual balance due was showing and therefore no billing was being generated. Then some students, myself being one, received a bill for several thousand dollars. Upon refute of the billing inaccuracies of the college combined with the illegal activity of Dorothy XXXX, Dorothy XXXX was discharged from her job at Mt. St. Mary College. In a panel review with Iris Turkekopf that was not taped and no notes were taken, 4 departments came in to testify that Mt St Mary College had acted inappropriately over the course of three grueling hours with no attorney present for me. Even though every single department admitted total fault I was deemed financially responsible for the money that was never correctly billed to me. Mt St Mary College refused to acknowledge any wrong doing on the part of the college despite firing Dorothy XXXX. Since that decision I have been educationally discriminated against by the college by a consistent blowing off, refusal to return calls, run around, and stall tactics that has cost me significant delays in completing my education. During this time, Mr. Dempsey who looked at my financial aid records then looked at me and told me that I did not have the financial means to challenge the college. At that time he was completely accurate but professionally out of line. It is a statement I have not forgotten.
In the process of taking a private student loan out to pay the balance as deemed owed and days before disbursement to Mt St Mary College, Mt St Mary College moved my account to a collection agency. Upon the dispersement of my private loan from Sallie Mae, Mt St Mary billing staff took it upon themselves to remove funding from my private student loan to pay the fees to the Collection Agency. I never authorized or would even agree to such an action. Further, I can find no such law that supports the legality of Mt St Mary to physically remove monies from my private student loan to disperse to any other party other than myself or the college directly. Upon my refute to Mt St Marry College of the latest unethical practices of the college I again myself being educationally discriminated. Mt St Mary College has refused to give me copies of all transactions regarding the receiving of my private Student Loan from Mt St Mary as well as each and every application of the loan funding in February 2008 to this date. My calls are blocked when I give me name so only messages are left. My calls go unreturned. I want copies of my entire account history, billing and the financial aid issues involving Dorothy XXXXX.
In the summer of 2008 I had to withdraw from classes due to a domestic violence situation I was in. The college classes I was taking ended at 9:55pm. The parking lot is not well lit and there is insufficient patrol that allowed me to feel safe and secure in my situation given things that were going on. I provided the college with notice of my Order of Protection and withdrew from two classes. Those two classes were supposed to be credited given the severity of the situation I was in. I later learned that Mt St Mary College never reversed the fees for those two classes and the charges are now in collections. I want to see those charges appropriately reversed.
I could not attend to this matter sooner because of the circumstances of my domestic violence case. I want it noted that since July 2010 I have been trying to get this matter resolved so that I can finish the 17 credit needed to graduate to no avail.
I directly feel that Mt St Mary College is not going got apply fair and ethical procedure for review. At the time that Dorothy XXXXX did the actions in the Financial Aid office I did not know that I could have asked for her arrest. I am not making the same mistake this time with the matter regarding the Billing Office and the funds for my Sallie Mae loan and time is of the essence. I am asking each one of you to please assist me with the above matter in whatever capability you may have in an adult up front manner that does not involve any more childish games of silence, stalling, or unethical conduct that will not only allow this matter to be permanently put to rest but one that also allows me to finish the 17 credits I need to graduate without any further delay.
Thank you for your time.