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As a graduating senior of N.C Central University, I have noticed many hurdles that students have to jump over where there should be no obstacle at all.
I am going to deem some resolutions to the problems that students face here at Central.
First of all, parking at NCCU for all off campus students is ridiculous.
There has been parking issues since before I came to NCCU and there are still no resolutions to the issue.
In the beginning, there weren't enough parking spots for the students with cars.
In turn, students did not want to pay for a decal and risk still not being able to park somewhere.
Now that there is a parking deck that is almost finished, administration wants to charge students over $450 per year to be able to have a spot in it.
For a few students, $450 is chump change.
But for majority of others, that kind of money doesn't come as easily.
I have a parking decal and it seems that only 10 to 15 percent of the deck is filled, and 85 percent of the spots are available at all times.
To make a profit off of the deck, instead of being stubborn and leaving spaces idle, administration should have a ticket machine that charges $2 per day.
Charging students by that day is more reasonable. It will help continue the flow of revenue into paying off the deck, instead of having one side of stubborn students and another side of stubborn administrative.
In the end, the school will benefit more because a $450 parking decal averages out to about $1.50 per day, and students paying $2 per day will average to a potential 50 cent profit per car and fill the deck — which is its purpose.
Another practice of the school that I do not like is the random charges and fees that students receive without knowledge.
For instance, I went to get allergy medicine from the clinic that cost $5.
I knew that it was supposed to be applied to my student account, which was fine.
Months later when I was going to apply for classes I was informed that I had a balance, and I realized that I forgot all about the medicine.
They said that my balance was $25.
I said, "WHY?!?"
They informed me that since I didn't pay the medicine off in a certain time I was charged $20. They told me that it was emailed to my NCCU account.
What the school fails to realize is just because we have issued email accounts doesn't mean that they are our primary accounts.
I am someone who tries to avoid the NCCU account as much as possible because they send us so much junk mail.
A resolution for these fines is to verbally inform us that we will be charged if we don't pay in a certain amount of time.
Better yet, I do not think that we should have any random charges.
If we have things to pay for we shouldn't be charged extra.
It should just be an outstanding balance on our accounts.
The least that they could do is send out a letter every semester to students informing them of their balance and in the end if they don't pay, they can't graduate.
Simple.
There is a lot of inconsideration going on at the school towards students that needs to be adjusted and I have a lot more to say just not enough space.
To be continued.
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