Students get wind of events and important dates by clicking through Web sites for the district, college, student life, The Ranger and Facebook or MySpace accounts for individual clubs and organizations.
Sometimes, they hear through word-of-mouth or stumble across a flier on campus bulletin boards.
Hopefully, by that time, it’s not too late to actually attend an event.
The college and district need a better communication system to alert students of services and opportunities available to them as well as a reminder for drop dates, applications for graduation deadlines, speaker series and sports schedules.
The campus has an abundance of events planned, but often, students are unaware of them unless they trip over them.
For example, a sexual heath talk Oct. 29 in Loftin Student Center drew only five students — two were Peer Educators who surely knew the risks of STDs and two were covering the event for The Ranger.
A speaker from the UT Health Science Center said that more than half of all sexually active people will have an STD by age 24 with most unaware they are infected. With information this important to get out, it seems a pity that no one knew.
We need a unified calendar or message system to reach all students, online, evening and San Antonio College students attending Northeast Lakeview College in addition to our traditional students.
Don’t expect students to check several sources daily to get the information they need from their college. Get the information out there quickly and in one place.
The district has been harping about customer service for years but can’t seem to master the basics of communication, publicity or advertising.
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