Dallas College Cedar Valley Campus - Lancaster, Texas

Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce

The Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce proudly recognizes Dallas College's Cedar Valley Campus as an essential partner in our community's progress. Their commitment to education and community development aligns seamlessly with our goals of fostering growth and prosperity. Dr. Nikki Ceasar-Small, as a dedicated leader, has been instrumental in this mission. Her tireless work in amplifying the campus's efforts is commendable. She has proven to be a visionary advocate for education, inspiring and guiding students as they pursue their academic and professional dreams. We are tremendously proud, keep being amazing!

Lisa H.

My daughter is attending here for summer courses. She was instructed by her professor to pick up some lab equipment for her summer chemistry class. When she arrived at the book store, she was greeted by two friendly bookstore employees that gave us specific directions on how to obtain Information for her equipment. They were patient and polite. Outside of this the school was well maintained and clean.

K Bui

Awful experience. The advising staff were rude and unhelpful. Registration staff were extremely unhelpful and contradictory. After being led in pointless circles and constantly receiving contradictory information about required forms and materials, I was finally able to meet someone who understood what was going on (after talking with at least 4 different registration staff members). By the time everything was sorted out, the classes were filled up. The advising staff members are not accommodating, interrupting, and very accusatory. It should not be on the customers shoulders to filter through constant contradictions just to apply to the school. I did follow and submit the required material stated online. Apparently, the material submitted was no acceptable and I had to jump through many hoops and complete many tedious tasks just to be told it was all pointless and I didn't even have to do any of the "required" forms or tasks. Honestly, I just felt like I was wasting my time doing pointless tasks when most, if not all, of it could have been avoided. By the time all my information was processed, I had finished applying/enrolling, getting advised, registering for classes, and paying for the classes at a different community college. This was the most unorganized, confusing, drawn-out process I've ever had to go through for any college admission. Wasted so much time throughout this process.
Oh, did I mention that no one knows how to pick up the phone? Called at many different points in time throughout the day just to be sent to voicemail... This happened for an entire week. Leave a voicemail and hope they get back to you promptly.

Emily Moody

The teachers and courses offered at this school are wonderful. However the staff in the advising and financial aid departments are horrible. Since my first semester at this school it has been nearly impossible to get any help from the advisers or financial aid department. To fix any problems, I have to call and email multiple times before I even get any response from them. Most of the people in the financial aid department are uninformed and give inaccurate information that leads to even more issues. When they don't know the answer to a question they just pretend to or try to talk around the issue. Every single semester I have attended at this school something has gone wrong because of inaccurate advising or delayed responses. Cedar Valley needs to seriously consider restaffing these departments if they want to keep their students. I've transferred to a different university because of these issues. This might not be the case for students who attend classes on campus, but I can't speak for that. I am a distance learner and it isn't possible for me to go up to the school every time their is an issue. If they can't offer a distance learning program that actually works, than they need to rethink having a distance program altogether.

Lee Collins

I'm going to be fair and admit that the teachers I've had have been the most helpful, inspiring, and kind people I've ever met. Unfortunately I can't say the same for most of the staff up front. Most of the staff are rude and unhelpful, constantly running you in circles like they have no idea how anything works. The advising staff are very unhelpful as well. Patty Soper-Shaw placed me in two wrong classes my first semester, and admitted to me she had no idea about any of the technology courses I was trying to take. Because of that, I'm now left without the hardware course I needed to take before the software one which leads me to this biggest problem I have with this college.

DO NOT TAKE TECHNOLOGY CLASSES HERE! It's a dead end. A majority of classes never have enough students to make the class work, so they're constantly being dropped. The dean of the technology department, Mr. Johnson, came to our class at the beginning of the Fall 2017 Semester to tell us our class is cancelled. He even admitted that the technology classes there are failing tor receive enough students for the classes, and apparently it's been that way for the past 10 years! It's to the point where my degree is absolutely useless, and because of the constant cancellations and mess ups between staff and advisers, my life is now behind because I can't even get a simple certification or degree.

I've been at this school for three semesters, and after my class getting cancelled again, I've decided to finish up this last semester and move onto another college. This school is the most unorganized, uninformative, and misleading place I've ever been to. I'm not the only student this has happened to either. I've spoken with many at that school who have suffered from the same problems I spoke about. This school has been a nightmare to go to and get anything done at. I would never recommend it to anyone.

Amy Shumway

Would not recommend. I can't speak to the instructors since I never made it that far, but the staff needs a refresher course on office management. I work in an admin office and if I ignored customers as I was ignored by this college I would have been fired a long time ago. I had my former colleges send my official transcripts in April which both confirmed that they had. I asked in June and in July where we were in the processes. The only answer I received was that "we can't find them" and asked if they were submitted under another name. I had told them multiple times that they were submitted under my maiden name as I was not married when I received other degrees. No response.

So I had them resent. There was no response. So after 24 hours I emailed both the registrar's office AND the email designed specifically for transcripts and did not hear back again. When I went up and emailed everyone in the admissions office suddenly they found my transcripts and my transcript hold disappeared like that. And then afterward, suddenly I received a response to one of my emails and the person I was speaking to was quite snippy with me saying that she "got to it when she could" although I had been inquiring for 2 MONTHS about the status of my transcripts.

Fortunately this was going to be my first semester and I have enough time that I found another distance education vet tech degree from another college. I won't be registering for classes with Cedar Valley after this whole thing honestly its NOT worth it.

Also, there is NO requirement to meet with an advisor and no one point of contact for Distance Education students. Their instructions for registering for classes are confusing and even inquiry emails were met with silence. Also it feels the admissions office was supplying contrary information on how to enroll in vet tech classes in the first place! If you're looking for a distance education vet tech program I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you going elsewhere. You'll just get frustrated here.

I would give 0 stars if possible

Melanie Quiroz

Okay let me start of by saying the staff and financial aid staff are EXTREMELY RUDE and not helpful . Not only was I told different things every time I came in but I was also yelled at (unreasonably) by one of the financial aid staff. She told me “YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING IV’E TOLD YOU” when in fact , I had submitted some things online and brought in new paperwork. It took me about 5 trips to finally be “finished” submitting all of my documents in order to enroll. I was given the run around and I finally decided I didn’t want to attend a school where there staff is so unprofessional and rude. Even though cedar valley is the closest to my house I'd rather make a longer drive to north lake where the staff is actually COURTEOUS, HELPFUL, & TRULY CARE ABOUT YOUR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. I do not recommend anyone to enroll here.

William Jones

The frustrating thing about community college is sometimes it’s a joke. Yes it’s affordable, but it’s simply a repeat of your last two years of high school. Teachers and professors are not putting quality work into the material that students encounter. I’ve learned nothing new that I haven’t done or learned in high school and the sad part is I had to pay for it. My advice would be to bite the bullet, find a reputable, affordable University, research your professors because community college is not it.