New York University students have voiced complaints that the university lacks a great sense of community prompting senior administrators to create more on-campus events.
Recently, a small sample of students gave their view on the subject at a panel featuring senior administrators, resulting in six out of ten administrators wanting to create more on-campus events that would appeal to the undergraduates, such as, fundraisers and music performances, enabling students to become more involved and build a stronger commune.
“NYU’s campus spreads throughout lower Manhattan, making it difficult for some students to distinguish between the community at the university and the community that is just the city of New York,” explained NYU senior, Paulina Abaunza, 21, assistant director of commuters and off campus student services. “I think it’s best to create events throughout the year near Washington Square Park to bring us all together, especially because there are so many people who live off campus and only come to Washington Square just to go to class.”
In agreement is NYU sophomore Kristen Alley, 20, who states that “We need to do something to create a closeness to the school but it needs to be something that a lot of people would want to get involved with or attend.” While rolling her eyes, she exclaimed, “Halloween dances in Hayden are not appealing, no one would go to those.”
When NYU senior and Vice President for student affairs, Marc Wais, 21, was asked if he felt more on-campus events would help strengthen the community he stated, “I guess more events could help but there are already so many. Maybe the events just aren’t appealing to the students, but that will hopefully change.”
On the NYU home website under university life, http://www.nyu.edu/life.html, it states that, “On campus, NYU offers countless ways to connect with other members of the university community. With over 400 student clubs and organizations…. students get involved with the university.”
NYU senior, Katie Sylvester, 22, explains that, “NYU has a pretty strong community. Yeah we can always use more events but I think we already have all of that, it’s just a matter if people choose to attend them or get involved in other activities that NYU offers. I mean I’m Chair of the student senators council, but that was my choice to get involved.”
Sylvester simply believes that, “If more people get involved at NYU than there will be less complaints about the lack of community that students believe that it has. Involvement leads to community.”
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