Advice

If I were hired by Baruch College (yay, me!) to improve the college, I would first have to think about the different ways in which it could use a little improving.

It is important to note that this post and the advice listed are coming from the perspective of a student, and that professors and staff members of the college would likely have different perspectives and different areas that need improving, which would help them in their daily lives while doing work.

Thinking of my day going into the Newman Vertical Campus(NVC) and/or the Lawrence and Eris Field Building (17 Lex), I realize that it would be incredibly helpful to have a small department in the college that directly and exclusively deals with new media. The students that come into the school are increasingly from newer generations and depend on new media for many aspects of their lives, so having a department that used new media to help students would be a great step forward for the college.

If I think about the aspects of my day on campus that could use a little improvement, they would definitely include the elevators, both in the NVC and the 17 Lex building, and I think other students would more than agree. The New Media Department would use a phone app to keep students informed about elevator status. Although this may sound as a lot of work and not worth the trouble, it would be safe to say that students are almost consistently late for classes because of the elevators. To have an app that would give information about where the elevators are at that point and which is the most efficient on to take to get from one floor to the next would be a great deal of help not just for students, but also for professors!

The New Media Department would also keep students up to date about activities/club events on campus. A Baruch College app currently exists, so if the department could use this app and improve it, it would be very helpful in that it would tell people what kind of things they can do and when. I would advise the college to also have a feature where the student/faculty member can sync their schedule into the app, so that it can give them options to be part of during their free time. I imagine this would be helpful for incoming freshmen, who have not yet had the chance to find a group they belong to.

If the proposed New Media Department could spend their time working on everyday improvements such as the ones mentioned previously in this post, it would make the college a lot smaller because it would connect the students and faculty through new media. If not for efficiency, perhaps for a huge step forward!

Thanks for reading,
See you super soon!

Nanar