California State University, Sacramento - Sacramento, California

Jackie C.

If you want to see diversity of race, age, gender, and background. This is the place for you. Inclusiveness, resource centers, and lots of free events with free gifts and foods! Hands down the top number 1 CSU in California of the 23 CSU's. Go Stingers! Rival to UCDavis, one of the top UC's in California.

Will L.

Very clean campus. My daughter graduated here, the ceremony was at the Golden 1 center. She loved getting her education here. Stingers up
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athena S.

The most disappointing excuse of a University. Majors and Minors are being cut left and right due to the improper budget spending of the University, however they blame the students instead of themselves. Professors whine about politics and woke Democratic nonsense instead of teaching the necessary materials students paid for.

I was FALSELY accused/reported of Plagiarism by Journalism Professor Amari Pollard, and the University did nothing to fight for my rights as a wrongfully accused student, instead they sided with Pollard and she got away with lying and falsifying records/documents, harassing me both verbally and digitally, lying to me and other University officials, and manipulating official grade transcripts WELL AFTER the semester was over and grades were finalized.

During the Fall 2024 semester, Professor Amari Pollard FALSELY accused me of plagiarism, copying other student's work, using AI, fabricating information, fabricating sources, fabricating websites, and harassed a random stranger on Facebook that she FALSELY accused me of interviewing when I DID NOT interview him. Despite all of these FALSE claims and LIES brought upon by Amari Pollard, she still gets to keep her job as a professor and faces no consequences for her untruthful and disgusting actions.

Despite my 68 screenshots, and 30+ pages of evidence disproving the FALSE claims and LIES of Amari Pollard which included multiple emails between her and I, various communication comments, Canvas announcements, grading comments, multiple repeated grade changes, and emails between myself and both Journalism Department Deans and Department Chairs, the Office of Conduct, the DHR Office, the Grade Appeal Office/Panel, and two separate attempts to rightfully return my course grade that was UNFAIRLY changed multiple times in a clear attempt of RETALIATION since I spoke out/defended myself and reported the unethical and disgusting actions of Professor Pollard. Each time I spoke with a Dean or Office of Conduct, they promised to speak with her regarding her inappropriate behavior, it is clear they spoke to her as the very next day she would manipulate my grade and change it to a lower percentage, she did this a total of THREE times even though my grade was finalized and the semester was over months before this occurred.

Amari Pollard had NO evidence to backup the FALSE claims she accused me of, as she was asked multiple times to present her evidence, yet she submitted inaccurate, out of context, and obviously edited/manipulated conversations to fit her narrative as she is clearly a vindictive liar who likes to throw out false allegations without context or proof. She exhibited this disgusting behavior throughout the entire semester I had her.
I spoke to other students who had her and they all had told me they experienced similar situations/treatment by Pollard that same semester.

Both Journalism Department Chairs, the Head of the Student Conduct office, and the Head of the Grade Appeal Office agreed that what Pollard accused me of was inappropriate, wrong, and should of never happened as my evidence strongly proved my innocence and clearly highlighted to incompetence and manipulation done by Pollard. I was informed by the Student Conduct Office that my work DID NOT reflect plagiarism, AI usage, fabrication, or copying of other student's work and I should have never been reported to them as I passed the class with a high grade and showed no signs of wrong doing or misconduct.

Shame on Sac State for hiring Professor Amari Pollard who is nothing but incompetent, unprofessional, shady, vindictive, vial, and outright dishonest to the unfortunate students who have her as their professor.

Im extremely disappointed in Sac State for not firing Amari Pollard or holding her accountable for her unprofessional behavior towards myself and other hardworking students who where WRONGFULLY accused and LIED to.

Shame on Sac State and President Luke Wood for hiring and protecting someone so vial, dishonest, manipulative, disrespectful and disgusting like Amari Pollard.

Sofii S.

I am ready to talk to whoever’s responsible about this! I am being taught about ethics in this university, about $200 each student pays a semester only to waste 15-20 minutes looking for parking and if a parking is found and a miracle happened about 50% chance of accident because of how small the parking is! Please this is not just a complaint this is to attract your attention that a problem is here and should be resolved!

Largon W.

Horrible school. I should not have even gone the first day after how bad orientation was. Madison Bradley, one of the orientation leaders, was rude and impatient the whole time she had an angry face and even yelled at me near the end cause I was deciding something. I understand there's days where you might not be in the mood, but as an orientation leader, she left a bad impression of the school. 8 hours of awkward orientation and disrespectful behavior. Also, everyone was quiet and nice, so I don't know why she had an attitude so unprofessional of her.

Everyone in my group stopped asking questions because she'd answer in an annoyed tone. I had orientation in high school and community college. I seriously can't believe a high school orientation leader was more professional and helpful than a college orientation leader. What a joke!

The parking sucks and I tried to use public transportation but really unreliable for being a commuter school it really needs more parking and maybe have a train station or a travel bus that goes to other cities near the campus. The counselors don't care and were unhelpful. Also, i had two meetings canceled, and one of the counselors was mad and was passive agressive because i wanted to change my major. Also, what's up with every class having a group project worth half your grade? Are professors this lazy now? I don't want to leave my grade in the fate of random group members.

Really hated my first month here. I honestly dropped the school. I will be attending a better university, another year. There's a reason why it's so high in acceptance that they only want your money. The current president increasing prices proves this. Please go somewhere else this college is clearly for people living in the city if you want a real college experience and professional staff then don't go to this one. what a waste of my time.

Hectotane

One of the many, proud students who used to go to Sac State; graduated in the fall of 2019 (and luckily before Covid-19 told everyone to screw off).

I was trying to get into Graphic Design but I had no money. So I opted instead for a BA in Studio Art Methods (New Media Focus). I was taking Multicultural Studies on the side.

Everything is expensive, some of the faculty have personality issues, the few Alt-Right people kept "yelling theater in a crowded fire house;" the school's transit system doesn't go far enough, and some of the buildings had issues with rain water coming through the roofs.

But I have no regrets. The area's beautiful, we're able to get help with food and studies, the learning of other cultures was "colorful" in a positive way, and most of the faculty are pretty awesome. It's not UC Davis, but I highly recommend taking your chances here.

Tyler

Cool campus to visit. Has a very woodsy vibe to it in the fact that there are tons of trees! Greek life is pretty much the main social scene. Without that it's hard to get to know a lot of people.

K J.

The president here is pro segregation and causes traffic jams by refusing to let pd and security manage intersections during busy times. Racists will love this campus as it continues to grow more segregated.