Chatham University in Pittsburgh

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  Kayla Ann

  :: 05 April 2018 19:56:48

  Chatham University has amazing teachers. However their help desk is completely unhelpful and delayed the starting of many classes due to their incompetence. President Finegold made no inkling of help, instead made excuses and pushed aside any responsibility for the continuing shortcomings of his staff.

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  m morrow

  :: 25 March 2018 12:38:04

  Expensive, and not ethical. They spread a group email of students on financial aid, and wanted them to attend rich old people parties to be grateful for donations. It is a smarmy practice. Many of the best profs have left.

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  A Google User

  :: 10 March 2018 16:40:44

  Watch out for their NASTY shuttle drivers tailgating, speeding, weaving in and out of traffic without signaling, failing to stop for stop signs, not using turn signals, and more. When confronted about the issue, select members of the University (Heather Black, Assistant Dean of Students) refused to acknowledge the NASTINESS of the shuttle driver by repeatedly ignoring requests for comment and action. For a trashy college that has a virtual Bible of safety information on its website, it is certainly fascinating that its politically-correct nonsense doesn't align with actuality. The leaders at Chatham University are cowards, plain and simple. The school is non-inclusive, offers zero valuable information that one couldn't look up for free on the Internet or visit a library to learn, and certainly isn't "sustainable" (another buzz word.) Avoid this disgusting excuse for a school at all costs. Go somewhere relevant.

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  Joanne Mediate

  :: 24 February 2018 00:12:29

  I am Joanne Mediate and am very interested at working at Chatham University. I have been a professional housekeeper for 40 years. I clean kitchen appliances , mop hardwood floors, water plants, clean bathrooms, do laundry and ironing, change linens on beds, wash Windows, walls. I get trash out daily and weekly and I will also do whatever my employer requests of me. I worked for a woman for 25 years that taught me every thing there is to make a home clean and shine.

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  Kelly Rusinack

  :: 02 November 2017 10:13:09

  Maybe time has changed things, or the people who decided to make reviews are only those who are disgruntled, who knows? Considering my experience and the dedication of the alumnae, I can't imagine Chatham has lost its luster. Chatham is not a cheap school. If your concern is affordability, don't bother. And again, I can't speak to the present or anyone else's experience, but I was full financial aid and 100% financed through many forms of payment, from academic scholarships to work/study jobs . The academics were rigorous and informative well past graduation - I continue to use the skills and knowledge from my undergraduate degree to this day, more than 30 years after graduating. In 2015, despite the protests of alumnae and then-current students, Chatham ended a 146 year tradition and broke with the school identity by opening the doors to its undergraduate program to male students for the first time ever (more correctly, male students were permitted to take individual courses at Chatham for a long time, but never permitted to matriculate, and were only permitted to live in certain dorms). Before that, with the alumnae resoundingly voting for the undergraduate program to remain single-sex, only the graduate and professional programs were officially co-ed. But no matter what, Chatham continues to have small student to teacher class sizes, where your professor really gets to know you, and can challenge you specifically to your strengths and weaknesses. My profs still remembered me 4 years after I graduated, when I applied for graduate school, and those who are still able continue to recall me and the work I did for them 30+ years later. That's all part of the Chatham experience. It's not for everyone, it appeals to a minority of people, and that's okay. It, or any school for that matter, doesn't have to pander to all. It is what it is, and for those of us for whom Chatham was/is appealing, it has a great deal of learning and networking to provide for a sound future and lifelong affiliations. Students live in old mansions converted into dorms, and take a great deal of pride in keeping their secluded campus beautiful and safe. Chatham is also now one of the "greenest" campuses in the U.S. with the addition of Eden Hall. I'm proud to be a Chatham alumna, it has opened doors I could never have dreamed as I chose it, and my education stays with me to this day. And none of this is taking into account what fun I had going to school in Pittsburgh, and the friendships I made along the way. My experience couldn't have been better.