Indeed our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter, I have decided to voice my complaints in order to protect prospective, young, and novice International students who aspire studying in United States of America.

The main complaint is that this culprit campus offers expensive and substandard masters degrees (you tend to wonder if they are in the business of education or are opportunistic exploiters of international students from dire circumstances like high unemployment rates in their home countries). This is like professionally instituted modern day slavery, from the student quest for a better living and education.
The school is taking advantage of the International students, mainly from developing countries with high unemployment rates e.g. India, Kenya and Morrroco. These students desire quality American education, and job opportunity instead Stevens Henagar offers low quality, no text books, under qualified, none committal and less motivated lecturers, easy grades, honestly it’s a joke been a masters student and the lecturers are not serious. No wonder they choose theoretical curriculum and will not offer specialization in practical and lucrative fields like Accounting or epidemiology, instead their curriculum has general business/healthcare class room based courses with limited on job skills, practical courses are limited to local students.
This specific college maybe accredited, but the school either masquerade to maintain its accreditation and remain in business Other accredited campuses offer quality best in class International standard Masters Degrees that as a student you can defend yourself in this ever competitive job market. If a campus is going to be allowed to go International it must meet diverse standard, not just a next door college. Its serious business when campuses decide to go global, we have smart, diverse students who demand education for their moneys worth and others come for the need of jobs, bottom line if we pay the money then we require quality service, anything short of that is considered a ripp off.

In addition, as a student the fee structure require you to pay high monthly fees installments (between 1200usd -1800usd) depending on your admission date. If dropped from school due to delinquent account or vacation break you get a fee hike and sign a new contract. Delinquent accounts are handled by constant threats/ blackmails and compelling mails from the international office. The international students office is headed by Brodie Smith who doubles as a debt collector, he writes threatening, compelling and black mailing emails to students In an attempt to collect school fees arrears, this act is against the federal debt Collector act, does this act protect immigrants, I bet it does, but not many student will complain due to fear of deportation and been out of status so they find themselves with deep seated anger on their rights

Moreover, there are no summer breaks and you are required to sign a 2year binding contract on arrival from your home country. If you don’t sign the contract you don’t get a new I-20 and thus hinders students from acquiring a social security number to work. Generally, most students sign as they are unknowledgeable on business dealings in USA and they bind themselves in this outrageous and expensive contract without taking note of the fine prints. The campus credits cannot be transferred to other universities, which is very suspicious (we wonder if they be recognized by other Universities why are they been allowed to go international?).

International students are marginalized, excluded, and isolated from some campus benefits, for instance the campus advertises that students get free laptops and upon graduation they keep them the only problem is that it only applies to local students, we are treated like second hand students and are discriminated upon.
The International office is disorganized with inexperienced staff that offers weak orientation it’s a raw deal. Several angry students have complained but most of them are afraid of been deported and therefore, complain secretly.

Undeniably, this deep seated anger, compromise, lack of expression is by far not a weakness but a circumstance disguised with genuine desire from students that needed education, and jobs to better their life. The only question is do we have rights as non alien immigrants or are we left at the mercies of shrewd opportunistic businesses that exploit us due to our circumstances?

In order to protect students, I would suggest we investigate the agency in home countrues that markets these schools, ban the Stevens Henagar campus from further marketing in our beautiful country.