Advice for Baruch College

There are so many different ways that Baruch College could use new media for self-improvement and higher efficiency. For starters, the school has many platforms which were created to improve communication and effectiveness for students and clubs in order to increase on-campus engagement. MyBaruch is an application that in theory should be every Baruch student's go-to for up to date information on events, status of technology, etc., however it is barely utilized. In my new role I would make this application a widespread platform all students would frequent to not only see a calendar of student life, career center, and club events, but also statuses on wait times at academic advisement, study room availability, and BCTC statuses.

New media would also be incredibly helpful for registration, as the CUNYFirst system is somewhat outdated and simply annoying to use. With the introduction of new media, students would be able to get updates on their class schedule, get notified when a seat opens in a desired class or when a waitlisted class is added, and possible even share their course load with peers to create a comprehensive calendar to keep track of responsibilities. In general, I am sure these additions would improve the College.

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  1. UnknownDecember 3, 2018 at 10:08 PM

    Hey Emilia, I agree with everything that you mentioned and especially the outdated CUNYFirst system. As an innovative university, I expect more from Baruch and more specifically the CUNY system. The website is constantly slow, broken, or updating causing a plethora of inconveniences to all students.

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  2. UnknownDecember 10, 2018 at 6:58 AM

    Hi Emilia,

    Your idea seems like to a great way to improve on one of Baruch's biggest problem: its outdated CUNYFirst system. Fixing this would be incredibly helpful for students feeling so much anxiety trying to pick out classes and update their schedules. I personally went through this with the recent sign-up period and I feel as if this would be so much more convenient not only for me, but for all students. You also bring up a great point with the study room availability because study rooms are so important to how some students study. This could be very helpful in improving students' grades as they do not have to waste time waiting for your room and they could use this time to put in more work towards studying.

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