Blog: Advice

I think that having such an active school requires the school to have an active social and new media presence. I think that some of the biggest systems that the school can improve upon include the cunyfirst, cunyportal and the overall social media layout. Cunyfirst is constantly down and is very hard to navigate. Creating an online application that works would be ideal to help students check their finances or statuses online on the run. Just this week, it was very hard to try to pick classes because people had theirs scheduled but the website itself was down. Cunyportal is very slow as a website and has a lot of useless content on it. A lot of professors use their own websites to teach their students or don't utilize cunyportal to what it could actually do. Social Media from Baruch is also very bad in the sense that no one is ever really kept in touch with what is going on campus. There was a moment when we had to receive the news of school being cancelled from the snow by the mayor on the news because a lot of students do not check the website or our emails since most of the information coming from there is usually spam and we tend to ignore it.