The parking fiasco really shouldn’t be any kind of accomplishment considering that they collected money from students while being able to let their administration and faculty get better spots at the school, only to turn around and give the money away to students as a “scholarship.” Would you feel okay with someone collecting money from you for a certain purpose, only to find out that someone else in your class received that money? Did they mention that there wasn’t an issue with parking at all to begin with? And essentially they ended up hiding the fee into the tuition anyway, so ultimately it was a win-win for them (collect more money, get bettter parking spots). I agree with you and the coffee assessment. The laptop mandate was something suggested by the students... for almost 5 years. The problem with these examples they are bringing up is that they make it seem like students recently brought it up and they were able to provide a response, but it has taken multiple classes and multiple efforts from the students to the point that the school finally budged. You could respond to everything listed as, “you can’t please them all,” with the addition of, “better late than never,” but is it?
As for the rotations, I was not speaking about clinical rotations at Touro Nevada. The 2 examples that were given were Touro California and Touro Harlem. Touro Nevada is lucky that majority of our rotations have been established long enough it will not feel UNLV for a number of years. However, the relationship that has been established between preceptors for clinical rotations and the school is not the strongest. There are some preceptors that will continually complain about how painful it is to deal with the school. In addition, due to UNLV moving into the neighborhood, students are written off when any issues with a preceptor might arise (aside from anything related to sexual harassment). Although mainly handled on a case by case basis, there is another instance where a student did not ethically agree with how something was being done at one of their rotations and told the clinical education department. That student was called to come in and was interrogated about the incident, almost making it seem like it was their fault. The department told the preceptor about the incident, and needless to say it was an awkward rest of the month.
As for how clinical rotations might be affected, I really can’t say. You have UNLV starting their rotations in a couple of years and they’ll undoubtedly need to expand the number of rotations they can offer. They have the money of the state/government to fund those rotations, Touro has your tuition money. Maybe the clinical rotations won’t be affected at all and there’s nothing to worry about. As for the school not listening to the students’ suggestions, aside from what was mentioned already, a few other things would be current condition of the lecture halls. Some of the seats... a lot of the seats in the lecture hall are broken and need repair. It is truly not unusual for a student to literally fall out of their seat during lecture or an exam because the seat broke. Another thing about lecture halls, by the time you matriculate, Mediasite might be taken down. Mandatory class will be in effect and some of the people that do not learn in that particular style will suffer from wasting countless hours physically being at lecture. Mediasite was a service being offered by the school as a means to remotely watch lectures that have been recorded online. Touro Harlem has embraced this, Touro Nevada has not. Finally, if you ever get a chance to watch the lecture recording, the quality is so poor you might as well be watching one of the weather cameras from the Weather Channel during a snow storm. Although not that terrible, the inconsistency and poor quality of the recordings makes it a gamble to rely on this method of learning, which the school is perfect okay with because of what was mentioned previously.
On the flip side, how about some things that weren’t suggested by the students, but the school used money to do it anyway. For example, iPads that are placed by some of the classrooms to provide you with information on what events are scheduled for the day in that space. iPads...iPads.... In addition, tall screen TVs like the ones at the front entrance placed around the hallways to provide you with upcoming events and notices.
Really there are many things that you can’t see because you are not in it, but again these are just some of the things that won’t be mentioned. You have more or less made up your mind, but for many others, they have not. I would be ecstatic if you came to TUN and called it your home for the next 4 years and managed to be happy about the decision. No one ever wants someone to commit 4 years to anything and not be happy. This is simply a means to allow you to make the most informed decision possible.
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