Students should be a priority, not an afterthought

Hey everyone. New face here, but hopefully you get used to me.

I think it is very important for the people who make decisions regarding our college, its policies and its operating procedures to look at the decisions from the student’s point of view. We are, in essence, the customers at OC. So, when a school administrator openly admits to me, on the record in an interview, that some of the security issues on the Shelton campus are because those making the decisions thought about the issue from their point of view from their offices and not the students, it infuriates me.

We are the reason they are there. What good is a college without students? How decisions made affect the students, and how to help the students through improvements made is paramount. We should be their first thought, not an after-the-fact “oops.”

The response to the lack of emergency phones on the Shelton campus should not be an ‘oh, oops, I guess we only thought about ourselves, the phones are on order’ type of response. That is appalling. Once it was brought to the attention of the administration that students were not only unable to contact security but that they felt they were unsafe, the administration should have hopped to and fixed the problem. Instead, they continue to sit on their collective laurels and continue to feed the line, which I have heard from more than one person involved, that the phones are on order.

The administrators need to wake up and get their priorities in order. 

Alex Vincent