Moraine Valley Community College - Palos Hills, Illinois

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I had something serious happen, prolonged chemical exposure from an unused chemistry kit given by the college, that resulted in months of me having respiratory symptoms, coughing and burning lungs, when I was in my room where the kit was stored up in the closet. For months I didn’t know the cause of the symptoms, but it was the kit. Once the kit was removed, the symptoms stopped altogether. This kit had been sent for an online chemistry class, but the class was dropped past the refund date. I had asked the professor, Churchill, if it was safe to store longer than a semester and he said yes. The kit itself and manufacturer website also said nothing about length of storage time. Having no use for the kit, I had it stored over a year. After realizing my symptoms were from the kit, informing 2 professors and wrapping the kit box in bags and taking it to the college as instructed, I also emailed the school board about this, but they ignored me. Before taking it to the campus, I had opened the box only a few seconds to take a picture of the material list (describes the box contents) to send to the professors (Churchill and Goodman) to get help so they knew what chemicals and items were being dealt with and could help explain my symptoms based on the items—at least, I thought they would explain, but they didn’t. I didn’t look at everything inside, as I was trying to close the box as fast as possible. Opening the box for only those few seconds made me cough and made my lungs burn for days. It was awful, and I was in shock and asked the professors frantically to explain what in the box would cause my symptoms, but NO ONE has ever answered me or explained ANYTHING, only dodged questions and said that I should be fine when I expressed concerns on how this could impact my or my family’s health. Because no investigation into the kit was done by the school, I would not recommend this school at all. If anyone involved wants to be dishonest, I can include the emails and text messages about this situation from the professors, message to the school board, as well as the report filed to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. I also contacted the company that makes the kits about what happened and asked for help but they provided no explanation or assistance either. This situation has caused me immense stress and trauma, and having no one explain what happened has only made it worse. I trusted the professors and everyone involved to explain the situation but they only ignored my questions if I asked for specifics on what happened in the kit, what in there caused my symptoms or what was done with the kit after I dropped it off at campus. If I had known they wouldn’t investigate what went wrong in the kit, I would have taken pictures of everything inside to show an unbiased third party, but at the time I was just terrified because I was coughing and my lungs were burning and I didn’t think the professors weren’t going to tell me anything. Whether there was a defect with one of the items in the kit or some other issue, I wanted to know, but I was given no explanation or even possible explanation.

Joe Myers

Moraine Valley Community College as a lot of nature around the campus ground. So much trees and buildings. There is also a library which is the "Jenkins Library" as well!

Moraine Valley Community College is also great for Pace Suburban Bus Routes which is 379 heading to Midway Airport or Orland Square, 381 to 95th/Dan Ryan CTA Red Line and 385 to Midway Airport (via 87th) or Rivercrest Shopping Center (via Robbins, Blue Island and 111th)

Isita Dorado Caero

Big college beutifull…

Wind Tree Studios

Experiencing the Mystical Arts of Tibet Tour and spending time with Lama's from Drepung Loseling Monestary at Moraine Valley was amazing! They created a beautiful sand mandala of Akshobya Buddha and performed Buddhist chanting and monastic debate demonstrations in the auditorium. They even taught a short class on Tibetan Buddhism. Very cool!

Will

First week done and everything seems to be great! No complaints as of yet. Will update later into the semester.

Venus Caponigro

Much better than South Suburban. Very good community college and I enjoy my time there. I have learned a lot!

alejandra harrold

Its a great community college. Great large rooms to have workshops

A X

The school itself is beautiful and I’ve had nothing but positive experiences in my classes, BUT my experience with the financial aid office has been so awful that it completely overshadows any good this school has to offer. They are entirely unhelpful when it comes to the reduction of income appeals. They have you running in circles for months despite calls, emails and in person visits. No one is ever on the same page and they intentionally make it extremely difficult to get additional financial assistance.