Blog: Advice

 If I was appointed by Baruch College to advise on how to better implement New Media to improve the school I would have a couple areas of focus. The first one being in utilizing social media such as Instagram and Twitter to keep students posted on deadlines, news, and other important information. For example, many students are cumbersomely opening up the Baruch Academic Calendar on their phone to see the last day to drop a course, when we have holidays, or when final exams may begin. I believe providing posts on social media on these upcoming days would benefit many students. Another area in which New Media can be implemented is the creation of a website or forum within Baruch which allows students to give feedback to Baruch on how their class or professor is doing. Currently we have a survey for each class at the end of the semester, however I feel that student's concerns are often not addressed and professor's attitudes, style of teaching, or even employment remains unchanged. I believe some of the decision makers at Baruch are not hearing our concerns and that by not sharing student's thoughts they are covering up glaring issues. Lastly, I believe that if there was a blog maintained by professors at Baruch which leaned towards providing students resources for their career, education, and personal life I believe many would greatly appreciate and utilize that.