Advice to Baruch College

The five C's: communication, community, convergence, creativity, and collaboration. These characteristics are not only important in defining new media, but should be critical to a student's time in college as well. New media can be used in colleges to address new and beneficial possibilities for students. 

Baruch College should start addressing new media in several aspects and trying to engage students with it more. For example, the blogs we are asked to make for Freshman Seminar should be less of a requirement and more of a personal "my time at Baruch" kind of blog. It can be introduced to students each year in the beginning to remind them it exists. This blog would encourage students to share their experiences with one another as well as give or get advice for their time here. Additionally, more classes can use online class wikis, to comment on works they read and also become familiar with one another. Online newspapers and their feeds can be useful to students in business classes, or any classes covering current events. 

I do believe new media shouldn't be forced onto students. But showing them how it can possibly help them outside of just personal entertainment or social gain would be a great start to incorporating new media into Baruch.